Civometry

Home Office · self-defined ethnicity: White

Stop and searches: White

Year ending March 2025

287,307searches

Stop and searches for White totalled 287,307 searches in the period to Year ending March 2025, down 1.7% (5,089) on the period before.

  1. Home Office dataset
  2. SS_23
  3. 2024/25
  4. column “White”
  5. 287307 per period
  6. published 6 November 2025

Year ending March 2007 to Year ending March 2025

Stop and searches by self-defined ethnicity: Year ending March 2007 to Year ending March 2025LabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour0250k500k750k2010201520202025Year ending March 2007: 696,709 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2008: 812,323 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2009: 951,396 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2010: 894,178 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2011: 831,689 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2012: 779,484 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2013: 708,268 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2014: 640,678 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2015: 375,720 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2016: 232,875 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2017: 169,476 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2018: 147,439 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2019: 189,019 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2020: 284,954 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2021: 359,273 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2022: 273,982 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2023: 288,277 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2024: 292,396 searches · published 6 November 2025Year ending March 2025: 287,307 searches · published 6 November 2025
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What this measures

Stop and searches in England and Wales in the year ending March split by the self-defined ethnicity of the person searched, with vehicle-only searches and searches where ethnicity was not stated shown separately.

Rates per head of population, which the Home Office publishes separately using census populations, or officer-defined ethnicity.

Source

Dataset
Police powers and procedures: stop and search
Release
Year ending March 2025, published 6 November 2025 · sha256 899831b67761ad9d…
All values
Stop and searches by self-defined ethnicity