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ONS · police force area: West Midlands

Homicides (Homicide Index): West Midlands

Year ending March 2025

34offences

Homicides (Homicide Index) for West Midlands totalled 34 offences in the period to Year ending March 2025, down 22.7% (10) on the period before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table 24
  3. West Midlands
  4. column “Apr 2024 to Mar 2025”
  5. 34 per period
  6. published 5 February 2026

Year ending March 2015 to Year ending March 2025

Homicides by police force area: Year ending March 2015 to Year ending March 2025CoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour0204020162018202020222024Year ending March 2015: 24 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2016: 30 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2017: 38 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2018: 43 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2019: 48 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2020: 49 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2021: 41 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2022: 50 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2023: 36 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2024: 44 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2025: 34 offences · published 5 February 2026
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What this measures

Offences currently recorded as homicide in each police force area of England and Wales for each year ending March since 2015, with the England and Wales total (Homicide Index, Table 24).

Rates per million population, regional aggregates, or police-recorded homicide counts from the quarterly crime tables, which are a different measure.

Source

Dataset
Homicide in England and Wales: appendix tables
Release
Year ending March 2025, published 5 February 2026 · sha256 af06b51f2372f561…
All values
Homicides (Homicide Index) by police force area