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Sexual orientation hate crimes in England and Wales, by offence type 2015-2017

Number of hate crimes motivated by a person's sexual orientation in England and Wales from April 2015 to March 2017, by offence type

The data displays the number of hate crimes motivated by a person's sexual orientation in England and Wales from April 2015 to March 2017, sorted by offence type. The most hate crimes due to sexual orientation were recorded as public order offences and the next lower number of crimes were found to be violent crimes, of which only about a third lead to the victim's injury.

Violence against the person with injury 918 1059
Violence against the person without injury 2130 2731
Public order offences 3342 4442
Criminal damage and arson 435 435
Other notifiable offences 369 490