This is an Official Statistics bulletin produced by statisticians in the Home Office, Ministry of Justice and the Office for National Statistics, which brings together, for the first time, a range of official statistics from across the crime and criminal justice system, providing an overview of hate crime in England and Wales.The report is structured to highlight: the victim experience; recording and detecting the crimes and how the various criminal justice agencies deal with an offender once identified, for different strands of hate crime.

Source agency: Home Office

Designation: Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: An Overview of Hate Crime in England and Wales

In the 2023/24 reporting year there were 140,561 hate crime incidents reported by the police in England and Wales compared with 147,645 in the previous year.

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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There were 48 religious hate crimes reported by the police in Northern Ireland in 2022/23, compared with 33 in the previous reporting year.

In the year ending in March 2024, 31.3% of victims of racially or religiously aggravated hate crime were Asian, 30.6% were White, and 23.1% were Black.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The number of hate crimes committed against transgender people in England and Wales has increased in recent years, reaching 4,732 offences in 2022/23, and only declining slightly to 4,780 offences in 2023/24.

In 2023/24 there were 98,799 racist hate crime incidents recorded by the police service in England and Wales, compared with 103,625 in the previous reporting year.

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.

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.

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.