"Figure 15: Domestic abuse combined incident and crime rate per 1,000 population by PFA, year ending March 2016","" "England and Wales","" "","" "Notes","1. Police recorded crime data are not designated as National Statistics. 2. Domestic abuse police incident data only includes domestic abuse incidents that did not result in a crime being recorded. Incidents of domestic abuse that did result in a crime being recorded by the police are included in data on domestic abuse-related offences. Therefore, to get a total picture of the demand upon the police that relates to domestic abuse, it is necessary to add the number of domestic abuse incidents and offences. " "Unit","Rate per 1,000 population" "","" "","Police Force Area","England and Wales" "Cheshire","7.6691467056113","" "Dyfed-Powys","8.6068028635066","" "Surrey","11.2755805268440","" "Thames Valley","11.4094847542827","" "Leicestershire","11.7558822025375","" "Suffolk","11.8264714009395","" "Nottinghamshire","12.6499334518190","" "North Yorkshire","13.2907692554870","" "Lincolnshire","13.9493528265901","" "Sussex","14.1444864180750","" "Dorset","14.5087099276719","" "Avon and Somerset","15.0066368344613","" "Cambridgeshire","15.0733816917850","" "Wiltshire","15.2775743580191","" "Lancashire","16.1624772091481","" "North Wales","16.2598113965554","" "Devon and Cornwall","16.3868695849241","" "Bedfordshire","16.9088099861981","" "Cumbria","17.0483297054595","" "Essex","17.1608086458199","" "West Mercia","17.1985805667647","" "Metropolitan Police","17.6369104367906","" "Warwickshire","17.6786365392183","" "Hertfordshire","17.8155750600812","" "England and Wales","","17.8256653364467" "Norfolk","17.9439488891249","" "West Midlands","18.3663148473809","" "Kent","18.4298230468279","" "Derbyshire","18.5941563703435","" "Gloucestershire","18.8572854453126","" "City of London","19.0639269406393","" "Northamptonshire","19.5359502977763","" "West Yorkshire","19.7491539269971","" "Humberside","20.3011663982185","" "South Wales","21.1683205134385","" "Northumbria","21.2416788815248","" "Merseyside","21.4845174996245","" "Staffordshire","22.6887211566940","" "South Yorkshire","23.3767745361563","" "Greater Manchester","23.8708755145743","" "Hampshire","24.5657927669748","" "Gwent","26.3171012171079","" "Cleveland","27.0103899800740","" "Durham","31.6069520256478",""