Home Office · Police workforce, England and Wales
Police officers per 100,000 population by police force area
236officers per 100,000 population
Police officers per 100,000 population by police force area was 236 officers per 100,000 population in the year ending March 2026.
- Home Office rate
- Year ending March 2026
- published 22 July 2026
- Table H4
- row “K04000001 England and Wales”
- column “Total officers per 100,000 population (FTE)[note 2]”
- cell value 236.03546748796512
What this measures
Full-time equivalent police officers per 100,000 residents in each territorial police force area of England and Wales as at 31 March, as calculated by the Home Office.
What this doesn’t measure
Officers per head of the daytime or visiting population; the City of London and Metropolitan Police figures use resident populations the Home Office notes are small or heavily commuted into.
Important caveat
Police force area figures exclude officers seconded out to central services and use the ONS police force area codes published with the table. Officers per 100,000 population is calculated by the Home Office from the latest ONS mid-year population estimates and is published only for the latest year in each release; it uses the resident population, and is not published for the City of London, whose resident population is very small relative to the people present in it.
Revision history
No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.
Source
- Publisher
- Home Office
- Publication
- Police workforce, England and Wales
- Release
- As at 31 March 2026, published 22 July 2026
- Source file
- police-workforce-mar26-tables-220726.ods
- File SHA-256
- 03a63dea0f8dd2cb21fa4cae5e940afc8747aae9a3b028e50a724ae1ba80b396
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Sheet
- Table_H4
- Table
- Table H4
- Row
- K04000001 England and Wales
- Column
- Total officers per 100,000 population (FTE)[note 2]
- Cell value
- 236.03546748796512
- Geography
- England and Wales
- Unit
- officers per 100,000 population
- API
- /api/metrics/police_officers_per_100k_by_force · /series · /vintages
Government periods
Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.
- Release
- As at 31 March 2026 · publication page
- Last updated
- 22 July 2026
- Next release expected
- July 2027 (estimated from the usual cadence)