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ONS · offence category: 39 Theft from the person

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 39 Theft from the person

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

515,978offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 39 Theft from the person totalled 515,978 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 45.6% (161,602) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Theft from the person
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 121161 per period
  6. published 23 July 2026

Year ending March 2003 to Year ending March 2026

Police-recorded crime by offence: Year ending March 2003 to Year ending March 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour050k100k150k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 148,488 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 137,154 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 122,081 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 123,867 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 114,852 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 101,660 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 89,652 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 92,247 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 92,902 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 100,588 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 109,757 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 98,282 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 78,434 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 83,322 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 88,635 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 99,484 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 103,654 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 113,299 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 49,666 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 87,757 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 112,171 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 131,583 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 151,063 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 121,161 offences · published 23 July 2026
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What this measures

The number of offences recorded by the police in England and Wales for every offence and offence group in the ONS appendix table, for each year ending March since 2003. Coded rows are individual Home Office offence codes; rows marked (subtotal) are the groups the ONS prints without a code.

Offences whose code was retired or introduced part way through the series (shown as unavailable for those years), or fraud reported to Action Fraud and Report Fraud for the latest year.

Source

Dataset
Crime in England and Wales: Appendix tables
Release
Year ending March 2026, published 23 July 2026 · sha256 9e4a930ec090b4b4…
All values
Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) by offence category