Knife and sharp instrument offences per 100,000 people by police force area, England and Wales
Official statistics, not accredited
Selected serious offences involving a knife or sharp instrument recorded per 100,000 people by each police force in England and Wales in the latest year and the year before, from the ONS's police force area tables.
England and Wales
78.4 per 100,000
Year ending June 2026
Verified against source, 4 November 2026, 22:11 UTC- Year ending June 2026
- Year ending June 2025
Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
56 rows
| Area | Year ending June 2026 | Year ending June 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Cleveland E23000013 | 161.9 per 100,000 | 147.2 per 100,000 |
| Metropolitan Police E23000001 | 151.0 per 100,000 | 172.2 per 100,000 |
| West Midlands E23000014 | 120.2 per 100,000 | 140.0 per 100,000 |
| South Yorkshire E23000011 | 96.1 per 100,000 | 101.7 per 100,000 |
| Greater Manchester E23000005 | 92.2 per 100,000 | 109.6 per 100,000 |
| Avon and Somerset E23000036 | 90.3 per 100,000 | 81.0 per 100,000 |
| Humberside E23000012 | 83.0 per 100,000 | 81.8 per 100,000 |
| Nottinghamshire E23000019 | 81.4 per 100,000 | 68.8 per 100,000 |
| West Yorkshire E23000010 | 80.7 per 100,000 | 91.7 per 100,000 |
| Merseyside E23000004 | 78.2 per 100,000 | 79.5 per 100,000 |
| Bedfordshire E23000026 | 77.9 per 100,000 | 75.3 per 100,000 |
| Northumbria E23000007 | 76.9 per 100,000 | 69.5 per 100,000 |
| Northamptonshire E23000022 | 75.9 per 100,000 | 66.4 per 100,000 |
| Lancashire E23000003 | 72.7 per 100,000 | 73.5 per 100,000 |
| Essex E23000028 | 71.3 per 100,000 | 76.4 per 100,000 |
| Derbyshire E23000018 | 68.5 per 100,000 | 63.2 per 100,000 |
| Staffordshire E23000015 | 67.1 per 100,000 | 66.7 per 100,000 |
| Durham E23000008 | 63.6 per 100,000 | 61.8 per 100,000 |
| Cambridgeshire E23000023 | 63.5 per 100,000 | 65.1 per 100,000 |
| Gwent W15000002 | 62.3 per 100,000 | 60.2 per 100,000 |
| Leicestershire E23000021 | 57.9 per 100,000 | 64.3 per 100,000 |
| Lincolnshire E23000020 | 56.3 per 100,000 | 51.9 per 100,000 |
| Sussex E23000033 | 50.2 per 100,000 | 57.3 per 100,000 |
| Hampshire E23000030 | 48.2 per 100,000 | 45.3 per 100,000 |
| West Mercia E23000016 | 47.4 per 100,000 | 45.9 per 100,000 |
| Warwickshire E23000017 | 47.2 per 100,000 | 48.1 per 100,000 |
| Devon and Cornwall E23000035 | 46.9 per 100,000 | 46.2 per 100,000 |
| Suffolk E23000025 | 46.7 per 100,000 | 37.4 per 100,000 |
| Hertfordshire E23000027 | 46.2 per 100,000 | 59.3 per 100,000 |
| Kent E23000032 | 45.2 per 100,000 | 45.1 per 100,000 |
| South Wales W15000003 | 45.2 per 100,000 | 47.7 per 100,000 |
| North Yorkshire E23000009 | 41.9 per 100,000 | 34.1 per 100,000 |
| North Wales W15000001 | 41.7 per 100,000 | 44.0 per 100,000 |
| Norfolk E23000024 | 41.1 per 100,000 | 49.3 per 100,000 |
| Wiltshire E23000038 | 40.6 per 100,000 | 29.2 per 100,000 |
| Cheshire E23000006 | 39.5 per 100,000 | 49.2 per 100,000 |
| Cumbria E23000002 | 38.2 per 100,000 | 30.0 per 100,000 |
| Thames Valley E23000029 | 36.4 per 100,000 | 35.3 per 100,000 |
| Gloucestershire E23000037 | 36.3 per 100,000 | 38.7 per 100,000 |
| Surrey E23000031 | 36.0 per 100,000 | 38.2 per 100,000 |
| Dyfed-Powys W15000004 | 34.0 per 100,000 | 33.6 per 100,000 |
| Dorset E23000039 | 31.6 per 100,000 | 26.2 per 100,000 |
| London, City of E23000034 | suppressed | suppressed |
| British Transport Police | unavailable | unavailable |
| England and Wales | 78.4 per 100,000 | 83.4 per 100,000 |
| England | 79.6 per 100,000 | 84.7 per 100,000 |
| North East | 92.2 per 100,000 | 84.6 per 100,000 |
| North West | 74.2 per 100,000 | 82.2 per 100,000 |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | 79.2 per 100,000 | 83.9 per 100,000 |
| East Midlands | 68.3 per 100,000 | 63.5 per 100,000 |
| West Midlands | 86.7 per 100,000 | 96.3 per 100,000 |
| East of England | 59.0 per 100,000 | 62.9 per 100,000 |
| London | 151.2 per 100,000 | 172.4 per 100,000 |
| South East | 43.1 per 100,000 | 43.8 per 100,000 |
| South West | 56.2 per 100,000 | 51.1 per 100,000 |
| Wales | 45.8 per 100,000 | 46.9 per 100,000 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Office for National Statistics
- Check it yourself
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/policeforceareadatatables
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Verification
Verified against source, 4 November 2026, 22:11 UTC Run at 4 November 2026, 22:11 UTC; 112 of 112 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Office for National Statistics; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-04T22:10:46Z; 3 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 3 of 3 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 112 of 112 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's missing match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 112 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 112 of 112 figures match exactly after downloading 3 source file(s) again (3 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's missing match |
| Pass | ONS edition is current | the yearendingjune2026 edition counts at 2026-06-30, 127 days before retrieval (limit 200) |
| Not run | Second official route | the ONS prints these rates in its police force area tables alone, so there is no second route; each is checked against the same workbook's count over its population |
| Pass | Each rate is Table P6's count over Table P3's population | 54 of 54 figures match Table P6's counts over Table P3's populations (mid-2025), rounded to 100, per 100,000, year ending june 2026; the year ending june 2025 rests on a population the workbook does not give, so it is not checked; not checkable, as the ONS gives no rate: E23000034, British Transport Police |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/policeforceareadatatables – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Offences per 100,000 people, on the mid-year population estimates the ONS uses for each year, rounded to the nearest 100. The selected offences are homicide, attempted murder, threats to kill, assault with injury and with intent to cause serious harm, robbery, rape and sexual assault, as in the counts of knife-crime-by-police-force. The City of London's rates are suppressed for its small resident population, and London's rate counts its offences and people with the Metropolitan Police's.
- The British Transport Police count in England and Wales's figure but in neither nation's, and hold no area. The chart leaves England and Wales, the nations and England's regions to the table, since they would dwarf every force.