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Robbery (police-recorded)

Year ending March 2026 Final

87,362offences

Robbery (police-recorded) was 87,362 offences in the year ending March 2026, up 10.2% (8,073) from 79,289 in the year ending March 2025.

▲ 10.2% · +8,073 against Year ending March 2025 (year on year)

  1. ONS count
  2. Year ending March 2026
  3. published 23 July 2026
  4. Table A5a
  5. row “TOTAL ROBBERY”
  6. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  7. cell value 87362

The series is rising. Rule: up 10.2% from Year ending March 2025 to Year ending March 2026.

Year ending March 2003 to Year ending March 2026

Robbery (police-recorded): Year ending March 2003 to Year ending March 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour050k100k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 110,271 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 103,736 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 91,010 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 98,198 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 101,376 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 84,773 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 80,130 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 75,105 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 76,189 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 74,688 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 65,155 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 57,828 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 50,154 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 51,234 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 59,418 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 77,253 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 85,936 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 90,196 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 59,650 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 66,200 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 75,019 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 81,023 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 79,289 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 87,362 offences · published 23 July 2026
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Longer history: 1898 to Year ending March 2026

Joins Robbery, 1898 to 2001/02 to the current series. The line is broken where the publisher changed method; the two sides are not directly comparable.

Robbery (police-recorded): 1898 to Year ending March 2026ConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabourLabourCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour050k100k1900191019201930194019501960197019801990200020102020Before: Offences counted under the Home Office Counting Rules as they stood before April 1998. After: Offences counted under the widened 1998 Counting Rules, which increased the number counted.methodology changeBefore: Recording practice as it stood before the National Crime Recording Standard. After: Recording under the National Crime Recording Standard, which increased the number of crimes recorded.methodology change1898: 354 offences · published 19 July 20121899: 279 offences · published 19 July 20121900: 256 offences · published 19 July 20121901: 234 offences · published 19 July 20121902: 274 offences · published 19 July 20121903: 241 offences · published 19 July 20121904: 251 offences · published 19 July 20121905: 223 offences · published 19 July 20121906: 242 offences · published 19 July 20121907: 232 offences · published 19 July 20121908: 310 offences · published 19 July 20121909: 226 offences · published 19 July 20121910: 211 offences · published 19 July 20121911: 198 offences · published 19 July 20121912: 195 offences · published 19 July 20121913: 155 offences · published 19 July 20121914: 133 offences · published 19 July 20121915: 85 offences · published 19 July 20121916: 114 offences · published 19 July 20121917: 134 offences · published 19 July 20121918: 100 offences · published 19 July 20121919: 203 offences · published 19 July 20121920: 235 offences · published 19 July 20121921: 211 offences · published 19 July 20121922: 164 offences · published 19 July 20121923: 151 offences · published 19 July 20121924: 122 offences · published 19 July 20121925: 136 offences · published 19 July 20121926: 120 offences · published 19 July 20121927: 110 offences · published 19 July 20121928: 128 offences · published 19 July 20121929: 167 offences · published 19 July 20121930: 217 offences · published 19 July 20121931: 208 offences · published 19 July 20121932: 342 offences · published 19 July 20121933: 219 offences · published 19 July 20121934: 215 offences · published 19 July 20121935: 182 offences · published 19 July 20121936: 189 offences · published 19 July 20121937: 209 offences · published 19 July 20121938: 287 offences · published 19 July 20121940: 342 offences · published 19 July 20121941: 483 offences · published 19 July 20121942: 685 offences · published 19 July 20121943: 730 offences · published 19 July 20121944: 821 offences · published 19 July 20121945: 1,033 offences · published 19 July 20121946: 921 offences · published 19 July 20121947: 979 offences · published 19 July 20121948: 1,101 offences · published 19 July 20121949: 990 offences · published 19 July 20121950: 1,021 offences · published 19 July 20121951: 800 offences · published 19 July 20121952: 1,002 offences · published 19 July 20121953: 980 offences · published 19 July 20121954: 812 offences · published 19 July 20121955: 823 offences · published 19 July 20121956: 965 offences · published 19 July 20121957: 1,194 offences · published 19 July 20121958: 1,692 offences · published 19 July 20121959: 1,900 offences · published 19 July 20121960: 2,014 offences · published 19 July 20121961: 2,349 offences · published 19 July 20121962: 2,517 offences · published 19 July 20121963: 2,483 offences · published 19 July 20121964: 3,066 offences · published 19 July 20121965: 3,736 offences · published 19 July 20121966: 4,474 offences · published 19 July 20121967: 4,564 offences · published 19 July 20121968: 4,815 offences · published 19 July 20121969: 6,041 offences · published 19 July 20121970: 6,273 offences · published 19 July 20121971: 7,465 offences · published 19 July 20121972: 8,926 offences · published 19 July 20121973: 7,338 offences · published 19 July 20121974: 8,666 offences · published 19 July 20121975: 11,311 offences · published 19 July 20121976: 11,611 offences · published 19 July 20121977: 13,730 offences · published 19 July 20121978: 13,150 offences · published 19 July 20121979: 12,482 offences · published 19 July 20121980: 15,006 offences · published 19 July 20121981: 20,282 offences · published 19 July 20121982: 22,837 offences · published 19 July 20121983: 22,119 offences · published 19 July 20121984: 24,890 offences · published 19 July 20121985: 27,463 offences · published 19 July 20121986: 30,020 offences · published 19 July 20121987: 32,633 offences · published 19 July 20121988: 31,437 offences · published 19 July 20121989: 33,163 offences · published 19 July 20121990: 36,195 offences · published 19 July 20121991: 45,323 offences · published 19 July 20121992: 52,894 offences · published 19 July 20121993: 57,845 offences · published 19 July 20121994: 60,007 offences · published 19 July 20121995: 68,074 offences · published 19 July 20121996: 74,035 offences · published 19 July 2012Year ending March 1998: 62,652 offences · published 19 July 2012Year ending March 1999: 66,835 offences · published 19 July 2012Year ending March 2000: 84,277 offences · published 19 July 2012Year ending March 2001: 95,154 offences · published 19 July 2012Year ending March 2002: 121,359 offences · published 19 July 2012Year ending March 2003: 110,271 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 103,736 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 91,010 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 98,198 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 101,376 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 84,773 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 80,130 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 75,105 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 76,189 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 74,688 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 65,155 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 57,828 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 50,154 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 51,234 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 59,418 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 77,253 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 85,936 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 90,196 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 59,650 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 66,200 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 75,019 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 81,023 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 79,289 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 87,362 offences · published 23 July 2026
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Breakdowns

What this measures

Police-recorded robbery offences in England and Wales in a 12-month period: theft using force or the threat of force.

What this doesn’t measure

Theft without force, burglary, or robberies not reported to the police.

Important caveat

Police-recorded crime counts offences reported to and recorded by the police. It is affected by whether people report crime and by changes in police recording practice, so it does not measure all crime that happens. The Crime Survey for England and Wales is the better guide to long-term trends in the crimes it covers. Police recorded crime is not designated as National Statistics.

When the way this was measured changed

A series can move because the thing being measured changed, or because the way of measuring it changed. Each change below is marked on the chart, and says what the figures meant on either side of it.

April 1998 · methodology change

Before
Offences counted under the Home Office Counting Rules as they stood before April 1998.
After
Offences counted under the widened 1998 Counting Rules, which increased the number counted.

Home Office: "the change to the Home Office Counting Rules for recorded crime had the effect of increasing the number of crimes counted. Numbers of offences for years before and after this date are therefore not directly comparable."

April 2002 · methodology change

Before
Recording practice as it stood before the National Crime Recording Standard.
After
Recording under the National Crime Recording Standard, which increased the number of crimes recorded.

Home Office: the National Crime Recording Standard "had the effect of increasing the number of crimes recorded by the police. Therefore, following the introduction of the Standard, numbers of recorded crimes are not comparable with previous years."

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher
ONS
Publication
Crime in England and Wales: Appendix tables
Release
Year ending March 2026, published 23 July 2026
Source file
appendixtablesyemar2026.xlsx
File SHA-256
9e4a930ec090b4b4a7dfda22f6f5f3b418cfa6a034f977ae99977562f8502ac9
Retrieved
4 September 2026
Sheet
Table A5a
Table
Table A5a
Row
TOTAL ROBBERY
Column
Apr 2025 to Mar 2026
Cell value
87362
Geography
England and Wales
Unit
offences
API
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Related metrics

Government periods

Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.

Labour 2024–81,023Year ending March 202487,362Year ending March 2026↑ 7.8%
Conservative 2019–202485,936Year ending March 201981,023Year ending March 2024↓ 5.7%
Conservative 2017–201959,418Year ending March 201785,936Year ending March 2019↑ 44.6%
Conservative 2015–201750,154Year ending March 201559,418Year ending March 2017↑ 18.5%
Coalition 2010–201575,105Year ending March 201050,154Year ending March 2015↓ 33.2%
Labour 2005–201091,010Year ending March 200575,105Year ending March 2010↓ 17.5%

Full comparison with chart

Release
Year ending March 2026 · publication page
Last updated
23 July 2026
Next scheduled release
22 October 2026 (official date)