Domestic abuse-related crimes recorded by the police, England and Wales
Official statistics
Crimes the police in England and Wales recorded as domestic abuse-related each year to March since 2016, with their share of all crimes recorded, from the ONS's domestic abuse tables.
England and Wales
816,493
Year ending March 2025 · 15.4% of all crimes the police recorded
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:21 UTCSource: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
10 periods, newest first
| Period | England and Wales |
|---|---|
| Year ending March 2025 | 816,493 |
| Year ending March 2024 | 851,062 |
| Year ending March 2023 | 911,248 |
| Year ending March 2022 | 910,980 |
| Year ending March 2021 | 845,734 |
| Year ending March 2020 | 798,607 |
| Year ending March 2019 | 746,219 |
| Year ending March 2018 | 599,549 |
| Year ending March 2017 | 488,049 |
| Year ending March 2016 | 421,185 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Office for National Statistics
- Check it yourself
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/domesticabuseprevalenceandvictimcharacteristicsappendixtables
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 8 November 2026, 13:07 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/domesticabuseprevalenceandvictimcharacteristicsappendixtables/dataSHA-256 87db346a4ae2d0d11f8ce95bcb45e14222b405f72a3b619ca6cb970307be4271 · 2,477 bytes
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/domesticabuseprevalenceandvictimcharacteristicsappendixtables/yearendingmarch2025/dataSHA-256 42e3dd99bdec07f07d4ff1d7522287dd3b2b523aba5e6c29e3b0c1009f544c51 · 428 bytes
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/domesticabuseprevalenceandvictimcharacteristicsappendixtables/yearendingmarch2025/domesticabuseprevalenceandvictimcharacteristics2025.xlsxSHA-256 e7b9834037723bf3d2379c045aa7fe0577522017ea92b6422eb265a190aed860 · 301,875 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:21 UTC Run at 8 November 2026, 13:21 UTC; 10 of 10 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Office for National Statistics; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-08T13:07:56Z; 3 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 3 of 3 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 10 of 10 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's accreditation and share_of_crimes match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 10 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 10 of 10 figures match exactly after downloading 3 source file(s) again (3 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's accreditation and share_of_crimes match |
| Pass | ONS edition is current | the yearendingmarch2025 edition counts at 2025-03-31, 587 days before retrieval (limit 730) |
| Pass | Table 8 adds up | 110 of 110 cases of the years' forces add up to their region or Wales, and those with the British Transport Police to England and Wales |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/domesticabuseprevalenceandvictimcharacteristicsappendixtables – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Crimes the police in England and Wales recorded and identified as domestic abuse-related, the British Transport Police's among them, as Table 8 of the ONS's domestic abuse tables gives them from the Home Office's data hub. Police recorded crime statistics are official statistics, not accredited official statistics, as the table says.
- The Home Office changed its counting rules for conduct crimes in May 2023, and since April 2023 most forces have identified domestic abuse with a new tool, as the ONS's notes beside the table set out, so the latest years are not counted quite as the earlier ones were. The headline's share is of all crimes the police recorded in the year.