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Crime types and definitions
Main groups, their detailed components and separate weapon collections overlap. Compare one measure at a time.
This page contains a published snapshot. The interactive comparison shows the latest validated data and its actual dates. Monthly source checks do not create new monthly official observations.
Main offence groups
All recorded crime
Rates per 1,000 residents.
All notifiable police-recorded offences excluding fraud. Anti-social behaviour incidents are not included.
Violence
Rates per 1,000 residents.
Violence against the person, including homicide, violence with and without injury, stalking and harassment. Recording practices affect comparisons.
Sexual offences
Rates per 1,000 residents.
Police-recorded rape and other sexual offences. Changes in reporting and recording can affect trends.
Robbery
Rates per 1,000 residents.
Theft involving force or the threat of force against a person, including personal and business property. An April 2025 clarification of police counting rules increased the recording of business robbery during shop theft involving violence or threats. Changes in robbery and shoplifting across this date can reflect the recording change as well as changes in crime.
Criminal damage & arson
Rates per 1,000 residents.
Recorded criminal damage to property and arson offences.
Drug offences
Rates per 1,000 residents.
Drug possession and trafficking offences. Recorded totals are influenced by police activity.
Weapons possession
Rates per 1,000 residents.
Possession of weapons offences. This is not a count of all knife-enabled crime.
Public order
Rates per 1,000 residents.
Police-recorded public order offences, including offences involving fear or provocation of violence.
All theft offences
Rates per 1,000 residents.
The parent total for burglary, vehicle offences, theft from the person, bicycle theft, shoplifting and other theft. These component categories must not be added to this total.
Miscellaneous crimes against society
Rates per 1,000 residents.
The Home Office miscellaneous crimes against society group, including offences such as handling stolen goods and perverting the course of justice. This completes the main offence-group breakdown.
Detailed offence groups
Burglary
Rates per 1,000 residents.
Residential and non-residential burglary. Rates use resident population, rather than the number of households.
Vehicle crime
Rates per 1,000 residents.
Theft of and from vehicles, vehicle interference and related vehicle offences.
Theft from the person
Rates per 1,000 residents.
Theft directly from a person without force or threat of force, including pickpocketing.
Shoplifting
Rates per 1,000 residents.
Police-recorded theft from shops. Counts depend on offences being reported to and recorded by police. From April 2025, clarified counting rules require shop theft involving violence or threats, including during escape, to be recorded as business robbery. This can affect year-on-year shoplifting comparisons spanning that date.
Homicide
Rates per 100,000 residents.
Police-recorded homicide offences, included within violence against the person. Percentage changes suppressed by ONS for small bases remain unavailable; a small absolute change can produce a large percentage change.
Death or serious injury — unlawful driving
Rates per 100,000 residents.
Death or serious injury caused by unlawful driving, included within violence against the person. ONS small-base percentage-change suppressions are preserved.
Violence with injury
Rates per 1,000 residents.
Recorded violence with injury, a component of violence against the person. Changes in reporting and crime recording can affect trends.
Violence without injury
Rates per 1,000 residents.
Recorded violence without injury, a component of violence against the person. Stalking and harassment are shown separately.
Stalking and harassment
Rates per 1,000 residents.
Recorded stalking and harassment, a component of violence against the person. Reporting and recording practices affect both levels and changes.
Residential burglary
Rates per 1,000 residents.
A component of burglary, covering homes and other buildings within the boundary of a dwelling. The April 2023 split between homes and unconnected buildings does not change this combined total. Rates use residents, rather than households.
Non-residential burglary
Rates per 1,000 residents.
Burglary of business and community premises, a component of total burglary and theft offences. Rates use the resident population.
Bicycle theft
Rates per 1,000 residents.
Recorded theft of bicycles, a component of total theft offences.
Other theft offences
Rates per 1,000 residents.
Other recorded theft offences, excluding the separately displayed burglary, vehicle offences, theft from the person, bicycle theft and shoplifting categories. A component of total theft offences.
Knife and firearm offences
Knife-enabled crime
Rates per 100,000 residents.
Selected serious offences involving a knife or sharp instrument: homicide, attempted murder, threats to kill, assault with injury or intent to cause serious harm, robbery, rape and sexual assault. This overlaps violence, robbery and sexual offences; it is not weapons possession or a separate addition to all crime. Counts come from a separate collection. National totals include British Transport Police. History contains published annual observations and the latest equivalent rolling years, not quarterly estimates. Recording improvements, including NDQIS from April 2019, limit older comparisons; Greater Manchester data before its 2018 review and Metropolitan Police data before its April 2024 revisions are not directly comparable with later figures.
Firearm offences
Rates per 100,000 residents.
Offences where a firearm was fired, used as a threat or used as a blunt instrument; conventional air weapons are excluded. This overlaps other offence categories and must not be added to all crime. It is not a count of shootings alone. National totals exclude British Transport Police. History contains published annual observations and the latest equivalent rolling years. Recording improvements limit historical comparisons; the Metropolitan Police changed systems in February 2024 and revised figures from April 2024.