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UK Hate Crime Statistics

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In year ending March 2023, there were 145,214 hate crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales. There were 101,906 race hate crimes, 8,241 religious hate crimes, 24,102 sexual orientation hate crimes, 13,777 disability hate crimes and 4,732 transgender hate crimes in year ending March 2023.

Statistics have shown an annual decrease in 4 out of the 5 strands of hate crime.

There has been a decrease of 6% for race hate crimes, an increase of 4% for religious hate crimes, decrease of 6% for sexual orientation hate crimes, 1% for disability hate crimes an a 11% increase for transgender hate crimes.


Government statistics have shown that 51% of the hate crimes recorded by the police were for public order offences, 41% were for violence against the person offences and 5% were recorded as criminal damage and arson offences.

Some of this information has been sourced from GOV.UK, please see link below to access:

Gov.uk (2022) Hate crime, England and Wales, 2022 to 2023 second edition – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) (accessed 07,05,2024)

Bedfordshire Hate Crime Weekly Statistics

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