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Hate crimes in England and Wales, by offence type 2015-2017

Number of hate crimes in England and Wales from April 2015 to March 2017, by offence type

This chart shows the number of hate crimes in England and Wales from April 2015 to March 2017, sorted by offence type. The majority of hate crimes were recorded to be public order offences and hate crimes of violent nature featured as the second most common case. However, only roughly a third of those resulted in the victim becoming injured.

Public order offences 36330 47462
Violence against the person without injury 16175 20786
Violence against the person with injury 5775 6811
Criminal damage and arson 4628 5474
Other notifiable offences 2592 4064