Adults in the proven reoffending cohort by police force area, England and Wales
Adults released from custody, convicted at court without custody or cautioned in each police force area of England and Wales in a year, the Ministry of Justice's proven reoffending cohort, for the newest two annual cohorts, from its geographical data tool.
England and Wales
332,688
Jan 2024 to Dec 2024
Verified against source, 2 November 2026, 19:30 UTC- Jan 2024 to Dec 2024
- Jan 2023 to Dec 2023
Source: Ministry of Justice. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
45 rows
| Area | Jan 2024 to Dec 2024 | Jan 2023 to Dec 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Police E23000001 | 39,477 | 36,893 |
| Greater Manchester E23000005 | 21,531 | 19,107 |
| West Yorkshire E23000010 | 17,412 | 16,661 |
| West Midlands E23000014 | 15,629 | 13,944 |
| Merseyside E23000004 | 13,789 | 12,288 |
| Lancashire E23000003 | 11,338 | 9,836 |
| Thames Valley E23000029 | 10,933 | 10,505 |
| South Yorkshire E23000011 | 9,801 | 9,159 |
| Northumbria E23000007 | 9,784 | 9,051 |
| Kent E23000032 | 9,465 | 8,899 |
| Hampshire E23000030 | 9,142 | 8,814 |
| South Wales W15000003 | 9,054 | 8,461 |
| Essex E23000028 | 9,022 | 8,872 |
| Avon and Somerset E23000036 | 8,502 | 8,137 |
| Devon and Cornwall E23000035 | 7,833 | 7,488 |
| Nottinghamshire E23000019 | 7,706 | 8,165 |
| Cheshire E23000006 | 7,179 | 6,607 |
| Humberside E23000012 | 7,020 | 6,027 |
| Sussex E23000033 | 6,911 | 6,389 |
| Derbyshire E23000018 | 6,199 | 5,882 |
| Norfolk E23000024 | 6,123 | 5,849 |
| Leicestershire E23000021 | 5,952 | 5,929 |
| Cleveland E23000013 | 5,612 | 5,089 |
| Staffordshire E23000015 | 5,594 | 5,118 |
| West Mercia E23000016 | 5,574 | 5,113 |
| Northamptonshire E23000022 | 5,032 | 5,172 |
| North Wales W15000001 | 4,901 | 4,828 |
| Durham E23000008 | 4,825 | 4,742 |
| Cambridgeshire E23000023 | 4,634 | 4,884 |
| Hertfordshire E23000027 | 4,503 | 4,484 |
| Suffolk E23000025 | 4,097 | 3,877 |
| Surrey E23000031 | 4,056 | 3,361 |
| Lincolnshire E23000020 | 3,915 | 4,063 |
| North Yorkshire E23000009 | 3,604 | 3,473 |
| Gwent W15000002 | 3,583 | 3,812 |
| Bedfordshire E23000026 | 3,490 | 3,322 |
| Dorset E23000039 | 3,472 | 3,381 |
| Wiltshire E23000038 | 3,467 | 3,608 |
| Cumbria E23000002 | 3,354 | 3,088 |
| Gloucestershire E23000037 | 2,731 | 2,803 |
| Dyfed-Powys W15000004 | 2,622 | 3,108 |
| Warwickshire E23000017 | 2,350 | 2,169 |
| London, City of E23000034 | 23 | 14 |
| Unknown | 1,447 | 1,093 |
| England and Wales | 332,688 | 313,565 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Ministry of Justice
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/proven-reoffending-statistics
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 2 November 2026, 19:30 UTC
- Publisher release
- –; next release 28 January 2027
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistics/proven-reoffending-statistics-october-to-december-2024SHA-256 963b4a1e0ec2af80e820ccad07d191ac34669396de8ed60c874a44078a991fe2 · 16,469 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ada161e9ea4857e15ab32dc/CSV.zipSHA-256 89f05c4d515e86da4dabc01d5242b66f5c620d06e9b44f1392f8a6712307a128 · 3,146,053 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ada12ab9ea4857e15ab32c8/PRSQ_Geographic_data_tool_January_2014_to_December_2024.xlsxSHA-256 1c040e10e66f1404cdcfa292ce6b7af6e2e704ed849dc990bd48c76e2acf9577 · 22,468,628 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 2 November 2026, 19:30 UTC Run at 2 November 2026, 19:30 UTC; 90 of 90 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Ministry of Justice; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-02T19:30:28Z; 3 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 3 of 3 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 90 of 90 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 90 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 90 of 90 figures match exactly after downloading 3 source file(s) again (3 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2024-12-31 ended 671 days before retrieval (limit 800), from CSV format of data tool; the tool was published 29 October 2026, its next release due 28 January 2027 |
| Pass | The tool's Data sheet agrees with the CSV row for row | 253,642 of 253,642 rows of the CSV agree with the tool's Data sheet (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ada12ab9ea4857e15ab32c8/PRSQ_Geographic_data_tool_January_2014_to_December_2024.xlsx), 90 of the record's 90 figures among them |
| Pass | The forces and “Unknown” add up to England and Wales | 2 of 2 cases of cohort, the 43 forces and the MoJ's “Unknown” sum to England and Wales (2 exactly) |
| Pass | The regions add up to England and Wales | 2 of 2 cases of cohort, the MoJ's regions sum to England and Wales (2 exactly) |
| Pass | North Yorkshire's force area is North Yorkshire and York | 2 of 2 cases of cohort, the councils of North Yorkshire and York sum to North Yorkshire's force area (2 exactly) |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/proven-reoffending-statistics – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Accredited official statistics (national statistics) from the Ministry of Justice's geographical data tool. The cohort is the adults released from custody, given a non-custodial conviction at court or cautioned in the year; a reoffender is one of them who committed an offence within a year that led to a conviction or caution within that year or a further six months.
- Each year's cohort is the four three-monthly cohorts of that year added together by the MoJ, so one person can count more than once in a year. A person counts in the area of their most recent known address.
- The MoJ's data sources changed in October 2015, and it warns against comparing cohorts across that break.
- The data hold counts only: the MoJ publishes no proportion who reoffend by area in them, so the hub shows none. Where five or fewer offenders are in a cell the MoJ suppresses it; the table says so, and the totals leave such cells out.
- “Unknown” is the MoJ's count of adults it could place in no police force area: 1,447 in the Jan 2024 to Dec 2024 cohort. It is kept out of the chart and placed in no area.