Overview

• ONS first combined prevalence estimate shows 10.6% of adults—around 5.1 million people—experienced domestic abuse, sexual assault or stalking in the year to March 2025.
• Women faced a higher victimisation rate at 12.8% compared with 8.4% for men, and experts warn that repeat incidents may not be fully captured by prevalence measures.
• Police recorded a record 530,643 shoplifting offences in 2024–25, marking a 20% increase on the previous year.
• The Crime Survey for England and Wales estimated 9.4 million personal and household crime incidents in the same period, driven chiefly by a 31% surge in fraud.
• The new combined prevalence metric will serve as the core measure for a cross-government strategy due in September to halve violence against women and girls by 2034.