In 2023/24, the majority of hate crimes reported by the police in England and Wales were racial hate crimes, with 98,799 of these offences in this reporting year. There were a further 22,839 hate crimes committed against a person due to their sexual orientation, the second-most reported category of hate crime.

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This publication provides information on the number of hate crimes from police recorded data in England and Wales from April 2017 to March 2018. The bulletin covers the extent and trends in hate crime for all forces, with additional analysis based upon more detailed data supplied by 24 police forces on the types of offences associated with hate crime.

Hate crime is defined as ‘any criminal offence which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards someone based on a personal characteristic.’ There are five centrally monitored strands of hate crime:

• race or ethnicity
• religion or beliefs
• sexual orientation
• disability
• transgender identity

The publication includes information on racist incidents in England and Wales recorded by the police from April 2017 to March 2018. A ‘racist incident’ is any incident, including any crime, which is perceived by the victim or any other person to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a person’s race or perceived race.

There were almost 16,400 incidences of racist hate crime reported by the London Metropolitan Police in the 2024/25 reporting year, by far the most of any police force area in England and Wales. In the same time period, there were 7,670 racist incidents reported in the West Midlands.

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Hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales by police force area. ‘Hate crime’ is any criminal offence committed against a person or property that is motivated by hostility towards someone based on their disability, race, religion, gender-identity or sexual orientation, whether perceived to be so by the victim or any other person.

This report brings together, for the first time, a range of official statistics on hate crime in England and Wales from across the crime and criminal justice system. It is the third in a series of cross-departmental reports collating information from the Office for National

Hate crimes, England and Wales

Source agency: Home Office

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: Hate crimes, England and Wales

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

Hate Crimes as Recorded by NYP. As per Crown Prosecution Service's definition a hate crime is considered to be any criminal offence which is perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice, based on a person's disability or perceived disability; race or perceived race; or religion or perceived religion; or sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation or transgender identity or perceived transgender identity. For further information please visit CPS's website

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.

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This supplementary volume explores topics from the 2010/11 British Crime Survey and provides analysis of the extent of and perceptions towards hate crime, use of the internet and cyber security and experimental statistics on the experience of crime among children aged 10 to 15.

Anti-social behaviour (ASB) outcomes for disabled people in England and Wales aged 16 and over, with analysis by disability status, country, sex, age, impairment type, type of ASB. Domestic abuse and sexual assault outcomes for disabled people in England and Wales aged 16 to 59 years, with analysis by disability status, age, sex, impairment type, impairment severity, country and region. All outcomes using the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) data.

In 2024/25 there were 21,560 hate crimes reported by the Metropolitan Police in London, the most of any police force in England and Wales. The police force areas with the second, and third-highest number of hate crimes were Greater Manchester Police, and West Yorkshire Police.

% of panel who think that hate crime is a problem in their local area