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Arrests for notifiable offences by self-defined ethnicity
Persons arrested for notifiable offences in England and Wales in the year ending March, split by the ethnicity the arrested person gave (Asian, Black, Mixed, White, Other) with "Not stated" as its own category.
latest 12 months to Year ending March 2025; 1 periods summed · total 754,046 arrests · published 19 August 2026
| Self-defined ethnicity | Latest 12 months | Share | Previous 12 months | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| White | 505,162 | 67% | 481,019 | ▲ 5% |
| Not stated | 114,657 | 15.2% | 123,177 | ▼ 6.9% |
| Asian (or Asian British) | 52,076 | 6.9% | 45,378 | ▲ 14.8% |
| Black (or Black British) | 46,616 | 6.2% | 39,911 | ▲ 16.8% |
| Mixed | 23,017 | 3.1% | 20,790 | ▲ 10.7% |
| Other | 12,518 | 1.7% | 10,828 | ▲ 15.6% |
Source
- Dataset
- Police powers and procedures: arrests · sheet A_01c
- Rows
- 2024/25; values are the sum of the published rows for each self-defined ethnicity and period.
- Caveat
- Officer-observed ethnicity (published separately in table A.01d), rates per head of population, or the offending of any group; an arrest is not a charge or a conviction.
- Parent metric
- Arrests for notifiable offences
- API
- /api/metrics/arrests_by_ethnicity/vintages