Release

Crime in England and Wales: year ending Dec 2015

Released: 21 April 2016 9:30am
Next release: 21 July 2016

Summary

Crime against households and adults, also including data on crime experienced by children, and crimes against businesses and society.

Publications

Data

  • Crime in England and Wales: Bulletin Tables

    Data tables and figures from the statistical bulletin in excel format. The data contained in these tables are from four sources: Crime Survey for England and Wales, Home Office police recorded crime, the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau and the Ministry of Justice Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly Update. Please note: The methodology by which the CSEW calculates its incidents of crime changed in December 2018. Incident numbers and rates published in the Bulletin Tables prior to the year ending September 2018 dataset are not comparable with those currently published.

  • Crime in England and Wales: Quarterly data tables

    Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and Home Office police recorded crime data, by quarterly time periods.

  • Recorded crime data at Police Force Area level

    Recorded crime for Police Force Areas. The data are rolling 12-month totals, with points at the end of each financial year between year ending March 2003 to March 2007 and at the end of each quarter from June 2007.

  • Household crime prevalence (CSEW open data table)

    Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) estimates, broken down by each combination of offence group, age, sex, and important household characteristics.

  • Perceptions other (CSEW open data table)

    Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) estimates, by each combination of offence group, age, sex, and important demographic or household characteristics.

  • Recorded crime data at Police Force Area level (including pivot table)

    Recorded crime for Police Force Areas, including a pivot table. The data are rolling 12 month totals, with data points shown at the end of each financial year between year ending March 2003 and year ending March 2007 and at the end of each quarter from June 2007.

  • Crime in England and Wales: Appendix tables

    Trends in Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) crime (accredited official statistics) and Home Office police recorded crime (official statistics) for England and Wales, by offence type. Also includes more detailed data on crime such as violence, fraud and anti-social behaviour.

  • Personal crime prevalence (CSEW open data table)

    Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) estimates, by each combination of offence group, age, sex, and important demographic characteristics.

  • Crime in England and Wales: Police Force Area data tables

    Police recorded crime figures by Police Force Area and Community Safety Partnership areas (which equate in the majority of instances, to local authorities).

  • Personal crime incidence (CSEW open data table)

    Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) estimates, by each combination of offence group, age, sex, and important demographic characteristics.

  • Household crime incidence (CSEW open data table)

    Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) estimates, broken down by each combination of offence group, age, sex, and important household characteristics.

  • Recorded crime data at Community Safety Partnership and local authority level

    Recorded crime figures for Community Safety Partnerships which equates in the majority of instances to local authorities . The data are rolling 12 month totals, with data points shown at the end of each financial year between year ending March 2003 and year ending March 2007 and at the end of each quarter from June 2007. The data cover local authority boundaries from April 2009 onwards and local authority area names correspond to Community Safety Partnership areas.

  • Perceptions criminal justice system (CSEW open data table)

    Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) estimates, by each combination of offence group, age, sex, and important demographic or household characteristics.

Contact details

Name

John Flatley

Email

crimestatistics@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 (0)20 7592 8695

About the data

Accredited Official Statistics

These are accredited official statistics. They have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and found to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This broadly means that the statistics:

  • meet user needs
  • are presented clearly and accessibly
  • are produced using appropriate data and sound methods
  • are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest

Pre-release access list

The phrase 'Pre-release Access' refers to the practice whereby official statistics in their final form, and any accompanying written commentary, are made available to an eligible person in advance of their publication. The rules and principles which govern pre-release access are featured within the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008.

Besides ONS staff, the following persons are given pre-release access by the period indicated before release.


Access granted to
Organisation
Period


Prime Minister
PS/Prime Minister
PPS/Prime Minister
SPAD to Prime Minister
Director of Communications for Prime Minister

10 Downing Street

24 hours


Home Secretary
Minister of State for Policing and Criminal Justice
Lords Minister
Minister for Preventing Abuse, Exploitation and Crime
Minister for Internet Safety and Security
Minister for Security
Permanent Secretary
Special advisers x3
Home Secretary’s Policy Adviser
Director General, Crime and Policing Group
Press Officer for Crime
Press Officer - Crime Desk x2
Director of Crime, Crime Directorate
Policy Pre-release Coordinator, Crime and Policing Knowledge Hub
Head of Unit, Crime and Policing Knowledge Hub
Interpersonal Violence Team
Head of Crime Insight Team, Crime and Policing Knowledge Hub
Policy Lead. Crime and Policing Knowledge Hub
Head of Team, Tackling Crime Unit x2
Head of Interpersonal Violence team,
Violent and Youth Crime Prevention Unit
Senior Policy Adviser, Policing Directorate

Head of Serious and Organised Crime - Fraud

Home Office

24 hours


Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat

Cabinet Office

24 hours


Head of Profession for Statistics
Head of Fairness and Confidence Unit x2
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
Policy Special Advisor


Ministry of Justice

24 hours


Minister for Local Government and Communities
First Minister
Minister for Finance and Leader of the House
Permanent Secretary
Policy and briefing unit
Head of Policing, Crime & Community Safety
Statistical Directorate
Senior Press Officer

Welsh Government

24 hours


National Policing Lead for Crime
Press Officer

National Policing Chiefs Council

24 hours