The latest (2024) crime trends

Yesterday (24 October 2024), the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics printed its report into Crime in England and Wales for the 12 months ending June 2024. The report focuses on crime in opposition to households and folks aged 16 years and over and is predicated on information from each  police recorded crime and the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW).

The headline findings are:

Crime has typically decreased during the last 10 years with some notable exceptions, comparable to sexual assault. Newest CSEW estimates confirmed that there have been an estimated 9.2 million incidents of headline crime (which incorporates theft, theft, felony injury, fraud, laptop misuse and violence with or with out damage) within the survey 12 months ending June 2024. This was 18% decrease in contrast with the 2017 survey (the earliest comparable 12 months for CSEW headline crime, together with fraud and laptop misuse).

The newest CSEW estimates confirmed a ten% enhance within the variety of headline crime incidents in contrast with final 12 months’s survey though the statisticians observe that this enhance could be partly as a result of the earlier survey reporting interval (July 2021 to Could 2023) nonetheless included occasions of COVID-19 restrictions. They conclude that it’s too early to inform if this transformation represents a short-term fluctuation or the beginning of a brand new pattern.

Whereas most crime sorts didn’t present a statistically important change, there have been notable will increase in theft, violence with damage and client and retail fraud.