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ONS · offence category: TOTAL THEFT OFFENCES (subtotal)

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): TOTAL THEFT OFFENCES (subtotal)

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

6,918,199offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for TOTAL THEFT OFFENCES (subtotal) totalled 6,918,199 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 2.6% (178,437) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. TOTAL THEFT OFFENCES
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 1637773 per period
  6. published 23 July 2026

Year ending March 2003 to Year ending March 2026

Police-recorded crime by offence: Year ending March 2003 to Year ending March 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour01m2m3m20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 3,413,319 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 3,249,647 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 2,837,862 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 2,739,231 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 2,638,784 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 2,422,728 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 2,321,580 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 2,132,620 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 2,107,446 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 2,074,779 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 1,900,944 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 1,845,169 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 1,750,607 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 1,762,925 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 1,881,317 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 2,012,500 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 2,013,578 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 1,928,317 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 1,301,397 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 1,496,470 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 1,722,498 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 1,780,309 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 1,777,619 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 1,637,773 offences · published 23 July 2026
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What this measures

The number of offences recorded by the police in England and Wales for every offence and offence group in the ONS appendix table, for each year ending March since 2003. Coded rows are individual Home Office offence codes; rows marked (subtotal) are the groups the ONS prints without a code.

Offences whose code was retired or introduced part way through the series (shown as unavailable for those years), or fraud reported to Action Fraud and Report Fraud for the latest year.

Source

Dataset
Crime in England and Wales: Appendix tables
Release
Year ending March 2026, published 23 July 2026 · sha256 9e4a930ec090b4b4…
All values
Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) by offence category