Adults who experienced domestic abuse, England and Wales
Official statistics
The share of adults aged 16 and over in England and Wales who experienced domestic abuse in the last year – any, by a partner or by a family member, and any for women and for men – from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, since its new questions in the year to March 2024.
Any domestic abuse
7.8%
Year ending March 2025 · 9.1% of women and 6.5% of men
Verified against source, 9 November 2026, 15:06 UTC- Any domestic abuse
- Any domestic abuse, women
- Any domestic abuse, men
- Partner abuse
- Family abuse
Source: Office for National Statistics. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
2 rows
| Category | Any domestic abuse | Any domestic abuse, women | Any domestic abuse, men | Partner abuse | Family abuse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year ending March 2024 | 8.0% | 9.5% | 6.5% | 5.9% | 3.0% |
| Year ending March 2025 | 7.8% | 9.1% | 6.5% | 6.1% | 2.7% |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Office for National Statistics
- Check it yourself
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/domesticabuseprevalenceandvictimcharacteristicsappendixtables
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 9 November 2026, 14:51 UTC
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Verification
Verified against source, 9 November 2026, 15:06 UTC Run at 9 November 2026, 15:06 UTC; 10 of 10 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Office for National Statistics; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-09T14:51:12Z; 3 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 3 of 3 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 10 of 10 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's accreditation and bases match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 10 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 10 of 10 figures match exactly after downloading 3 source file(s) again (3 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's accreditation and bases match |
| Pass | ONS edition is current | the yearendingmarch2025 edition counts at 2025-03-31, 588 days before retrieval (limit 730) |
| Pass | Table 2 gives Table 1's | 126 of 126 cases of Table 2's year ending March 2025 shares by type of abuse and sex are Table 1's |
| Pass | Table 5 gives Table 1's | 9 of 9 cases of Table 5's shares for all people aged 16 and over are Table 1's |
| Not run | Source page answers | https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/domesticabuseprevalenceandvictimcharacteristicsappendixtables refuses automated requests (rate limiting, HTTP 429); open it in a browser to compare |
Notes
- The share of people aged 16 and over in England and Wales who experienced domestic abuse in the last year, as Table 2 of the ONS's domestic abuse tables gives it from the Crime Survey for England and Wales. The survey has asked new questions since the year to March 2024, whose estimates the ONS says cannot be compared with those of its earlier questions, so the hub shows no earlier year.
- The figures come from part of the survey's sample, so the ONS asks that they be read with caution. A person can experience more than one type of abuse, so partner and family abuse add up to more than any domestic abuse.