Total crime
Crimes against adults and households in England and Wales, counted by asking people what happened to them rather than by what was reported to the police. Excludes fraud and computer misuse so the series stays comparable back to 1981. Each point is a year ending in March.
England and Wales
2026
4,333,000
| Period | Total crime (crimes) |
|---|---|
| 1 Jan 1981 | 11,303,000 |
| 1 Jan 1983 | 12,128,000 |
| 1 Jan 1987 | 13,647,000 |
| 1 Jan 1991 | 15,564,000 |
| 1 Jan 1993 | 18,835,000 |
| 1 Jan 1995 | 19,786,000 |
| 1 Jan 1997 | 17,168,000 |
| 1 Jan 1999 | 15,247,000 |
| 1 Jan 2002 | 12,771,000 |
| 1 Jan 2003 | 12,390,000 |
| 1 Jan 2004 | 11,609,000 |
| 1 Jan 2005 | 10,778,000 |
| 1 Jan 2006 | 10,863,000 |
| 1 Jan 2007 | 11,182,000 |
| 1 Jan 2008 | 10,040,000 |
| 1 Jan 2009 | 10,432,000 |
| 1 Jan 2010 | 9,544,000 |
| 1 Jan 2011 | 9,711,000 |
| 1 Jan 2012 | 9,593,000 |
| 1 Jan 2013 | 8,757,000 |
| 1 Jan 2014 | 7,554,000 |
| 1 Jan 2015 | 7,177,000 |
| 1 Jan 2016 | 6,529,000 |
| 1 Jan 2017 | 6,057,000 |
| 1 Jan 2018 | 6,247,000 |
| 1 Jan 2019 | 6,431,000 |
| 1 Jan 2020 | 5,661,000 |
| 1 Jan 2021 | Not published |
| 1 Jan 2022 | Not published |
| 1 Jan 2023 | 4,385,000 |
| 1 Jan 2024 | 4,589,000 |
| 1 Jan 2025 | 4,595,000 |
| 1 Jan 2026 | 4,333,000 |
Incidents of crime against adults and households in England and Wales, estimated from the Crime Survey for England and Wales. Counts crimes people say happened to them, whether or not they reported them, so it is not affected by changes in police recording. Excludes fraud and computer misuse, which were only added to the survey in 2017, so that the series stays comparable back to 1981. No survey ran for the years ending March 2021 and March 2022.
How this is measured
- Published by
- Office for National Statistics
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Series
- c1
- Covers
- England and Wales
- Published
- Annual
- History
- 1981 to 2026
- Last published
- 2026
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