ONS · offence category: 40 Theft in a dwelling other than from an automatic machine or meter

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 40 Theft in a dwelling other than from an automatic machine or meter

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

152,262offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 40 Theft in a dwelling other than from an automatic machine or meter totalled 152,262 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, down 16.6% (30,375) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Theft in a dwelling other than from an automatic machine or meter
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026
  5. 35827 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour020k40k60k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 56,444 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 61,099 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 57,713 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 54,757 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 54,471 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 51,336 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 51,220 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 53,338 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 54,798 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 54,518 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 52,384 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 50,513 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 50,808 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 51,317 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 52,301 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 53,828 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 53,633 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 49,169 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 39,783 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 40,052 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 40,520 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 39,138 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 36,777 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 35,827 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