"Figure 5: Incidence rates of personal crime have been falling in England and Wales between the year ending March 2011 and the year ending March 2020.","" "Incidence of personal crime, England and Wales, April 2010 to March 2011 until April 2019 to March 2020","" "","" "Notes","1. Presented estimates are based on data collected from face-to-face interviews using the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW). The methodology of data collection changed during the coronavirus pandemic, and from May 2020 onwards data have been collected using the Telephone-operated Crime Survey for England and Wales (TCSEW). Data on personal crime incidence collected using TCSEW are not directly comparable with those presented in this bulletin and have not been included. [The Office for National Statistics’ guidance explains comparability between the face-to-face CSEW and the TCSEW](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/methodologies/comparabilitybetweenthetelephoneoperatedcrimesurveyforenglandandwalesandthefacetofacecrimesurveyforenglandandwales)." "Unit","number per 1,000 adults" "","" "Date","Number per 1,000 adults","Lower Confidence Interval ","Upper Confidence Interval " "Apr 2010 to Mar 2011","87.94","81.36","94.51" "Apr 2011 to Mar 2012","87.03","81.02","93.05" "Apr 2012 to Mar 2013","81.10","74.27","87.93" "Apr 2013 to Mar 2014","71.66","64.68","78.65" "Apr 2014 to Mar 2015","65.87","57.91","73.84" "Apr 2015 to Mar 2016","59.92","54.67","65.16" "Apr 2016 to Mar 2017","55.63","50.44","60.82" "Apr 2017 to Mar 2018","57.30","51.92","62.68" "Apr 2018 to Mar 2019","58.14","53.17","63.12" "Apr 2019 to Mar 2020","49.76","44.98","54.53"