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Stop and searches by self-defined ethnicity

Year ending March 2025 Final

528,582searches

Stop and searches by self-defined ethnicity were 528,582 searches in the year ending March 2025, down 1.4% (7,635) from 536,217 in the year ending March 2024.

▼ 1.4% · −7,635 against Year ending March 2024 (year on year)

  1. Home Office count
  2. Year ending March 2025
  3. published 6 November 2025
  4. SS_23
  5. row “2024/25”
  6. column “Total”
  7. cell value 528582

Year ending March 2007 to Year ending March 2025

Stop and searches by self-defined ethnicity: Year ending March 2007 to Year ending March 2025LabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour0500k1m1.5m2010201520202025Year ending March 2007: 1,050,438 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2008: 1,233,208 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2009: 1,519,561 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2010: 1,405,985 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2011: 1,303,540 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2012: 1,189,882 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2013: 1,017,542 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2014: 904,038 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2015: 541,144 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2016: 383,595 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2017: 304,132 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2018: 282,380 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2019: 385,154 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2020: 586,645 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2021: 714,914 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2022: 530,970 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2023: 547,000 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2024: 536,217 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2025: 528,582 searches · published 6 November 2025
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What this measures

Stop and searches in England and Wales in the year ending March split by the self-defined ethnicity of the person searched, with vehicle-only searches and searches where ethnicity was not stated shown separately.

What this doesn’t measure

Rates per head of population, which the Home Office publishes separately using census populations, or officer-defined ethnicity.

Important caveat

Ethnicity is as self-defined by the person searched; where it is not stated the Home Office's combined-ethnicity tables use officer-defined ethnicity, but this table does not. Searches where ethnicity was not stated or unknown and vehicle-only searches are shown as their own categories. The Home Office's separate per-1,000-population comparison uses 2011 Census populations for 2010/11 to 2019/20 and 2021 Census populations from 2020/21, excludes British Transport Police (no population base) and the City of London (small resident population), and is affected by differences between resident and present populations and by the share of searches with no recorded ethnicity; it is not reproduced here.

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
Home Office
Publication
Police powers and procedures: stop and search
Release
Year ending March 2025, published 6 November 2025
Source file
stop-search-data-tables-summary-mar25.ods
File SHA-256
899831b67761ad9d864a764bfde474b09b143956a08f889bb5dce30f2ecd276b
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Sheet
SS_23
Table
SS_23
Row
2024/25
Column
Total
Cell value
528582
Geography
England and Wales
Unit
searches
API
/api/metrics/stop_search_by_ethnicity · /series · /vintages

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.

Conservative 2019–2024385,154Year ending March 2019536,217Year ending March 2024↑ 39.2%
Conservative 2017–2019304,132Year ending March 2017385,154Year ending March 2019↑ 26.6%
Conservative 2015–2017541,144Year ending March 2015304,132Year ending March 2017↓ 43.8%
Coalition 2010–20151,405,985Year ending March 2010541,144Year ending March 2015↓ 61.5%

Full comparison with chart

Release
Year ending March 2025 · publication page
Last updated
6 November 2025
Next release expected
November 2026 (estimated from the usual cadence)