"Figure 8: Police recorded rape and sexual offences were the highest on record in the year ending September 2022","" "England and Wales quarterly data from January 2010 to September 2022","" "","" "Notes","1. Operation Yewtree is the police investigation into allegations of sexual abuse, launched in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal." "Unit","Number of offences" "","" "","Sexual offences","Rape" "Jan to Mar 2010","13049","3953" "Apr to Jun 2010","14366","4245" "Jul to Sep 2010","13713","3936" "Oct to Dec 2010","12327","3558" "Jan to Mar 2011","13534","4153" "Apr to Jun 2011","14180","4354" "Jul to Sep 2011","13520","3995" "Oct to Dec 2011","12603","3848" "Jan to Mar 2012","12457","3841" "Apr to Jun 2012","12684","3992" "Jul to Sep 2012","13078","3920" "Oct to Dec 2012","14123","4259" "Jan to Mar 2013","13714","4203" "Apr to Jun 2013","14926","4685" "Jul to Sep 2013","16772","5184" "Oct to Dec 2013","15427","5027" "Jan to Mar 2014","17107","5855" "Apr to Jun 2014","18664","6106" "Jul to Sep 2014","22195","7114" "Oct to Dec 2014","22688","7697" "Jan to Mar 2015","25029","8503" "Apr to Jun 2015","25974","8569" "Jul to Sep 2015","26209","8998" "Oct to Dec 2015","26638","9005" "Jan to Mar 2016","28410","9762" "Apr to Jun 2016","29358","9864" "Jul to Sep 2016","29575","10164" "Oct to Dec 2016","30736","10524" "Jan to Mar 2017","33325","11511" "Apr to Jun 2017","37979","13866" "Jul to Sep 2017","37673","13810" "Oct to Dec 2017","38626","13804" "Jan to Mar 2018","38463","13524" "Apr to Jun 2018","41512","14999" "Jul to Sep 2018","41860","15516" "Oct to Dec 2018","39958","14649" "Jan to Mar 2019","40978","14757" "Apr to Jun 2019","42172","15105" "Jul to Sep 2019","40720","14851" "Oct to Dec 2019","39402","14605" "Jan to Mar 2020","40950","14543" "Apr to Jun 2020","31710","11839" "Jul to Sep 2020","40845","15275" "Oct to Dec 2020","37566","14053" "Jan to Mar 2021","37714","14485" "Apr to Jun 2021","47839","17114" "Jul to Sep 2021","47135","17214" "Oct to Dec 2021","49938","17889" "Jan to Mar 2022","48654","17688" "Apr to Jun 2022","50772","17601" "Jul to Sep 2022","49657","17455"