This publication provides information on the number of hate crimes from police recorded data in England and Wales from April 2019 to March 2020. The bulletin covers the extent and trends in hate crime for all forces, with additional analysis based upon more detailed data supplied by 31 police forces on the types of offences associated with hate crime.

Hate crime is defined as ‘any criminal offence which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards someone based on a personal characteristic.’ There are five centrally monitored strands of hate crime:

race or ethnicity
religion or beliefs
sexual orientation
disability
transgender identity

The publication includes estimates on the number of hate crime incidents from the Crime Survey for England and Wales for the combined survey years of year ending March 2018, year ending March 2019 and year ending March 2020.

Published 13 October 2020
Last updated 28 October 2020 + show all updates

28 October 2020
Added HTML versions of 'Hate crime, England and Wales, 2019 to 2020' and 'Annex to Hate Crime, England and Wales, 2019 to 2020'.
13 October 2020
First published.

Hate crime, England and Wales, 2019 to 2020

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