FOI reference: FOI-2026-3358
You asked
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide any aggregated statistical data held for the calendar year 2025 which record criminal offences, arrests, charges, or convictions cross-tabulated with any of the following variables:
Nationality, and/or
Immigration status, including asylum seeker or refugee status
If the data are held in more than one table or dataset, please provide each in aggregated form.
If no such data can be provided, please confirm that no aggregated crime statistics linking criminality to nationality or immigration status are held for 2025.
We said
Thank you for your request.
We publish data on crime primarily from two main sources:
Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) -- a household victimisation survey that asks respondents about their experiences of crime, regardless of whether the incident was reported to the police.
Police recorded crime (from the Home Office) -- offences that are reported to and/or recorded by police forces in England and Wales.
Table A1 of our Annual supplementary tables provides a breakdown of the proportion of people who were victims of CSEW headline crime by personal characteristics, including ethnicity and country of birth (split by born in the UK and not born in the UK).
The most recent published data on this is for the year ending March 2025. Personal characteristics are produced on an annual basis, so the next release will be for the year ending March 2026, published in July. We do not hold breakdowns of crime by asylum seeker or migrant status.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) are primarily responsible for data on offenders, prosecutions and convictions, and may be able to help you further with your enquiry. They can be contacted at data.access@Justice.gov.uk. The MoJ also publish statistics every quarter which you may find useful.
Data on police recorded crime figures are provided to us by the Home Office. The Home Office also publish statistics relating to illegal migration and quarterly immigration statistics that may be of interest to you. For further information they can be contacted using the following email: CrimeandPolicestats@homeoffice.gov.uk.
If you have any further questions, please contact us at CrimeStatistics@ons.gov.uk and we will endeavour to help.