ONS · offence category: Burglary (subtotal)

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

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

1,010,075offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for Burglary (subtotal) totalled 1,010,075 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, down 24.5% (328,103) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Burglary
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026
  5. 223456 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 2026LabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour0250k500k750k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2003: 890,099 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2004: 820,013 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2005: 680,358 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 645,068 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 622,012 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 583,710 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 581,584 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 540,645 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 522,683 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 501,048 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 459,795 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 443,212 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 410,866 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 401,758 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 412,215 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 437,540 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 421,186 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 384,004 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 267,563 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 265,425 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 275,546 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 266,111 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 244,962 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 223,456 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