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ONS · offence category: Arson (subtotal)

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): Arson (subtotal)

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

97,971offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for Arson (subtotal) totalled 97,971 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, down 2.9% (2,916) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Arson
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 23592 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour020k40k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 53,552 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 57,546 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 48,368 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 45,731 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 43,100 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 39,327 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 34,827 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 32,580 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 29,116 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 27,219 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 19,305 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 18,582 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 19,579 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 22,042 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 24,154 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 26,897 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 26,731 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 26,162 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 23,224 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 24,770 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 27,817 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 23,604 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 22,958 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 23,592 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