Where can I find official crime statistics?

For England and Wales, the ONS publishes "Crime in England and Wales" quarterly. It combines two sources: the Crime Survey for England and Wales, which asks people about crimes they experienced whether or not they reported them, and crimes recorded by the police. The Home Office publishes the detailed police recorded crime tables.

Scotland and Northern Ireland publish their own crime statistics. See our crime and justice sources guide.

Official sources: ONS Crime in England and Wales (latest) · Police recorded crime open data

The latest figure

The newest value is at Office for National Statistics (ONS). More on it: Crime Survey for England and Wales: headline crime.

When is the next figure out?

Quarterly ONS bulletin, each covering a rolling year; the year ending March 2026 bulletin was published on 23 July 2026 and the next is due on 22 October 2026. The appendix tables file name changes with each period

Every official release due in the next two weeks is on the release calendar.

Terms used in this answer

• Administrative data
  Information collected by organisations while running a service, such as tax records, benefit claims or hospital activity, and then used to produce statistics.
• England and Wales
  A single legal jurisdiction, so crime, courts, prisons and death registration statistics are often published for England and Wales together.
• Police recorded crime
  Crimes reported to and recorded by the police, following national counting rules. It reflects reporting and recording practice as well as crime itself.
• Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW)
  A large household survey asking adults about crimes they experienced in the last year, whether or not they reported them to the police.
• Clearance rate (crime outcomes and charge rate)
  How often recorded crimes are solved or result in a suspect being charged. In England and Wales this is published as crime outcomes, including the charge rate.
• Survey sample
  The group of people or businesses selected to take part in a survey, chosen so that their answers can be used to estimate figures for the whole population.

Where the figures come from

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