ONS · offence category: 5D Assault with intent to cause serious harm

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 5D Assault with intent to cause serious harm

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

143,413offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 5D Assault with intent to cause serious harm totalled 143,413 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 6.0% (8,104) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Assault with intent to cause serious harm [note 13]
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026
  5. 36252 per period
  6. published 23 July 2026

Year ending March 2013 to Year ending March 2026

Police-recorded crime by offence: Year ending March 2013 to Year ending March 2026CoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour010k20k30k201520202025Year ending March 2013: 17,006 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 17,929 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 20,565 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 23,129 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 25,432 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 29,893 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 34,301 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 33,494 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 31,358 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 36,156 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 35,378 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 35,551 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 36,232 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 36,252 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