Race hate crime England and Wales 2023

In 2022/23 there were 101,906 racist hate crime incidents recorded by the police service in England and Wales, compared with 109,906 in the previous reporting year. While there were around 76,070 reported incidents in 2019/20, this year does not include figures from Greater Manchester police, one of the largest police forces in England and Wales.

Number of police recorded racial hate crimes in England and Wales from 2011/12 to 2022/23

Characteristic	Number of incidents
2022/23*	101,906
2021/22	109,843
2020/21	92,052
2019/20	76,070
2018/19*	78,991
2017/18	71,264
2016/17	62,685
2015/16	49,419
2014/15	42,862
2013/14	37,575
2012/13	35,845
2011/12	35,944

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Release date

October 2023

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

2011 to 2023

Supplementary notes

*Data for 2019/20 does not include Greater Manchester Police, data for 2022/23 does not include Devon and Cornwall Police.

Data prior to 2020/21 taken from earlier editions of this dataset:

For 2019/20 data: Hate crime, England and Wales, 2019 to 2020: appendix tables, table 1

For data prior to 2019/20: Hate crime, England and Wales, 2018 to 2019: data tables, table 2

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