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Homicides (Homicide Index)

Year ending March 2025 Final

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Homicides (Homicide Index) were 522 offences in the year ending March 2025, down 7.8% (44) from 566 in the year ending March 2024.

▼ 7.8% · −44 against Year ending March 2024 (year on year)

  1. ONS count
  2. Year ending March 2025
  3. published 5 February 2026
  4. Table 1
  5. row “Apr 2024 to Mar 2025”
  6. column “Number of offences currently recorded as homicide”
  7. cell value 522

The series is falling. Rule: down 7.8% from Year ending March 2024 to Year ending March 2025.

1967 to Year ending March 2025

Homicides (Homicide Index): 1967 to Year ending March 2025ConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabourLabourCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour02505007501970198019902000201020201967: 354 offences · published 5 February 20261968: 360 offences · published 5 February 20261969: 332 offences · published 5 February 20261970: 339 offences · published 5 February 20261971: 407 offences · published 5 February 20261972: 409 offences · published 5 February 20261973: 391 offences · published 5 February 20261974: 526 offences · published 5 February 20261975: 443 offences · published 5 February 20261976: 488 offences · published 5 February 20261977: 413 offences · published 5 February 20261978: 468 offences · published 5 February 20261979: 547 offences · published 5 February 20261980: 535 offences · published 5 February 20261981: 501 offences · published 5 February 20261982: 557 offences · published 5 February 20261983: 482 offences · published 5 February 20261984: 537 offences · published 5 February 20261985: 536 offences · published 5 February 20261986: 563 offences · published 5 February 20261987: 600 offences · published 5 February 20261988: 547 offences · published 5 February 20261989: 521 offences · published 5 February 20261990: 554 offences · published 5 February 20261991: 622 offences · published 5 February 20261992: 581 offences · published 5 February 20261993: 566 offences · published 5 February 20261994: 633 offences · published 5 February 20261995: 662 offences · published 5 February 20261996: 586 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 1998: 602 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 1999: 639 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2000: 668 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2001: 760 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2002: 793 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2003: 942 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2004: 773 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2005: 777 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2006: 709 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2007: 711 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2008: 731 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2009: 637 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2010: 592 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2011: 631 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2012: 525 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2013: 543 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2014: 520 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2015: 504 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2016: 538 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2017: 689 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2018: 698 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2019: 641 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2020: 676 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2021: 555 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2022: 672 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2023: 581 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2024: 566 offences · published 5 February 2026Year ending March 2025: 522 offences · published 5 February 2026
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Breakdowns

What this measures

The number of offences of murder, manslaughter and infanticide in England and Wales currently recorded as homicide on the Home Office Homicide Index, after cases have been reclassified following court outcomes or further investigation.

What this doesn’t measure

Offences initially recorded as homicide that were later reclassified, deaths by dangerous driving, corporate manslaughter, or homicides in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Important caveat

Homicide Index figures count offences currently recorded as homicide (murder, manslaughter and infanticide) as at a fixed date, after cases initially recorded as homicide have been reclassified following court decisions or further investigation. They are subject to revision as cases progress, are published about a year after the quarterly police recorded crime tables, and will not match the police-recorded homicide count for the same period. Calendar years are shown up to 1997 and years ending March from then on.

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
ONS
Publication
Homicide in England and Wales: appendix tables
Release
Year ending March 2025, published 5 February 2026
Source file
homicideinenglandandwalesappendixtablesyemar2025finalv2.xlsx
File SHA-256
af06b51f2372f561181e7bb7e05549b2dca3337abc02bda26a13f6d8b3c85f3d
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Sheet
Table 1
Table
Table 1
Row
Apr 2024 to Mar 2025
Column
Number of offences currently recorded as homicide
Cell value
522
Geography
England and Wales
Unit
offences
API
/api/metrics/homicides · /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.

Conservative 2019–2024641Year ending March 2019566Year ending March 2024↓ 11.7%
Conservative 2017–2019689Year ending March 2017641Year ending March 2019↓ 7.0%
Conservative 2015–2017504Year ending March 2015689Year ending March 2017↑ 36.7%
Coalition 2010–2015592Year ending March 2010504Year ending March 2015↓ 14.9%
Labour 2005–2010777Year ending March 2005592Year ending March 2010↓ 23.8%
Labour 2001–2005760Year ending March 2001777Year ending March 2005↑ 2.2%
Labour 1997–20015861996760Year ending March 2001↑ 29.7%
Conservative 1992–199762219915861996↓ 5.8%
Conservative 1987–199256319866221991↑ 10.5%
Conservative 1983–198755719825631986↑ 1.1%
Conservative 1979–198346819785571982↑ 19.0%

Full comparison with chart

Release
Year ending March 2025 · publication page
Last updated
5 February 2026
Next release expected
February 2027 (estimated from the usual cadence)