The latest released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) for 2024 revealed that there were 177,687 home burglaries reported in England and Wales. That’s an average of 487 burglaries a day.
What’s more, only five per cent of these result in a charge or caution.
Legal Expert’s CICA specialist Ellie Lamey says: “Being the victim of a burglary can be extremely invasive and traumatic not to mention those instances of aggravated burglary where weapons are involved.
“Moreover that shockingly low charge rate gives victims the impression that there is no support or justice following what can be in some cases, a life-altering event.
“Victims of burglaries can be left feeling abandoned and unsupported but it is important that they know there is help available for them.
“The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) for example, is a government-backed organisation that can offer compensation to blameless victims of violent crimes throughout the UK. The payouts awarded depend on the severity, but they range from £1,000 to £500,000 and can be a vital resource for victims who need support to recover from an often traumatic event.”
How Legal Expert Can Help
Our team of specialist criminal injury solicitors have helped support many victims of burglaries, robberies and theft. If you’ve suffered injuries in the course of the burglary, you could be entitled to compensation and we can help you recover it. To speak with us for free today about your case, call us on the number above or write to us here.
How We Conducted Our Research Into Drink Driving Offences
Following an influx of inquiries from victims of home burglaries from across the UK, Legal Expert set out to investigate to the extent of the issue, identify the most targeted areas and look at charging rates and consequences for perpetrators.
We sent out Freedom of Information Requests to every UK Police Force asking for the number of home burglaries across in the last three years (between January-December 2022, 2023 and 2024).
We also asked for those record in the last year alone (2024), how many resulted in a person being charged or summonsed.
In 2024, we also requested a breakdown of areas that were most targeted as well as the number of offences deemed as ‘aggravated burglary’ – usually meaning weapons were involved.
See below for the results in your area.
National Statistics
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- Avon & Somerset
- Bedfordshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Cheshire
- Cumbria
- Devon & Cornwall
- Dorset
- Durham
- Gloucestershire
- Gwent
- Humberside
- Lancashire
- London
- Lincolnshire
- Norfolk
- Northumbria
- North Wales
- North Yorkshire
- Nottinghamshire
- South Wales
- South Yorkshire
- Staffordshire
- Suffolk
- Sussex
- West Mercia
- West Midlands
Avon & Somerset
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 3,610
2023 | 3,412
2024 | 3,648
Total | 10,670
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 101
No. resulting in charge/summons | 124 (4%)
Burglary Hotspots:
Bedfordshire
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 1,627
2023 | 1,574
2024 | 1,531
Total | 4,723
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 15
No. resulting in charge/summons | 80 (5%)
Cambridgeshire
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 2,021
2023 | 2,204
2024 | 1,944
Total | 6,169
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 116
No. resulting in charge/summons | 131 (6%)
Burglary Hotspots:
Cheshire
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 1,871
2023 | 1,700
2024 | 1,501
Total | 5,072
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 40
No. resulting in charge/summons | 82 (5%)
Burglary Hotspots:
Cumbria
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 1,008
2023 | 829
2024 | 683
Total | 2,520
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 9
No. resulting in charge/summons | 60 (9%)
Burglary Hotspots:
Devon & Cornwall
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 1,794
2023 | 2,242
2024 | 2,547
Total | 6,583
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 40
No. resulting in charge/summons | 128 (5%)
Burglary Hotspots:
Dorset
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 1,871
2023 | 1,784
2024 | 1,797
Total | 5,452
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 92
No. resulting in charge/summons | 45 (3%)
Burglary Hotspots:
Durham
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 2,003
2023 | 2,360
2024 | 2,198
Total | 6,561
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 80
No. resulting in charge/summons | 202 (9%)
Burglary Hotspots:
Gloucestershire
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 163
2023 | 1,521
2024 | 1,226
Total | 2,910
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 6
No. resulting in charge/summons | 45 (4%)
Burglary Hotspots:
Gwent Police
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 1,712
2023 | 1,441
2024 | 1,437
Total | 4,590
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 10
No. resulting in charge/summons | 153 (10%)
Burglary Hotspots:
Humberside
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 4,178
2023 | 4,163
2024 | 4,159
Total | 12,500
For 2024:
No. resulting in charge/summons | 230 (6%)
Burglary Hotspots:
Lancashire
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 7,536
2023 | 7,280
2024 | 7,190
Total | 22,006
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 2,128
No. resulting in charge/summons | 479 (7%)
Burglary Hotspots:
Lincolnshire
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2024 | 1,677
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 138
No. resulting in charge/summons | 45 (3%)
Burglary Hotspots:
London
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 36,361
2023 | 37,515
2024 | 34,996
Total | 108,872
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 610
No. resulting in charge/summons | 1,024 (3%)
Burglary Hotspots:
FULL LIST OF LONDON RESIDENTIAL BURGLARIES 2024
- Barnet – 1,839
- Southwark – 1,583
- Hackney – 1,536
- Tower Hamlets – 1,477
- Enfield – 1,440
- Brent – 1,392
- Croydon – 1,384
- Lambeth – 1,372
- Lewisham – 1,346
- Camden – 1,296
- Westminster – 1,277
- Ealing – 1,252
- Newham – 1,218
- Haringey – 1,209
- Wandsworth – 1,198
- Islington – 1,077
- Hounslow – 1,058
- Greenwich – 1,027
- Hillingdon – 1,017
- Bromley – 1,003
- Kensington & Chelsea – 940
- Hammersmith & Fullham – 924
- Waltham Forest – 918
- Harrow – 857
- Redbridge – 854
- Havering – 849
- Merton – 736
- Richmond upon Thames – 697
- Sutton – 628
- Barking & Dagenham – 623
- Bexley – 554
- Kingston upon Thames – 415
Norfolk
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 887
2023 | 856
2024 | 898
Total | 2,641
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 32
No. resulting in charge/summons | 34 (4%)
Burglary Hotspots:
Northumbria
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 4,528
2023 | 4,526
2024 | 5,180
Total | 14,234
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 159
No. resulting in charge/summons | 394 (8%)
Burglary Hotspots:
North Wales
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 1,321
2023 | 1,230
2024 | 1,157
Total | 3,708
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 6
No. resulting in charge/summons | 55 (5%)
Burglary Hotspots:
North Yorkshire
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 1,137
2023 | 1,336
2024 | 1,441
Total | 3,914
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 24
No. resulting in charge/summons | 47 (3%)
Burglary Hotspots:
Nottinghamshire
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 2,882
2023 | 2,063
2024 | 1,728
Total | 6,673
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 68
No. resulting in charge/summons | 111 (6%)
Burglary Hotspots:
Nottinghamshire – Home burglaries
South Wales
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 2,644
2023 | 2,131
2024 | 2,153
Total | 6,928
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 35
No. resulting in charge/summons | 209 (10%)
Burglary Hotspots:
South Yorkshire
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 8,726
2023 | 8,604
2024 | 8,013
Total | 25,343
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 71
No. resulting in charge/summons | 212 (3%)
Burglary Hotspots:
Staffordshire
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 2,269
2023 | 2,366
2024 | 2,217
Total | 6,852
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 29
No. resulting in charge/summons | 73 (3%)
Burglary Hotspots:
Suffolk
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 732
2023 | 667
2024 | 666
Total | 2,065
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 26
No. resulting in charge/summons | 49 (7%)
Burglary Hotspots:
Sussex Police
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 2,698
2023 | 3,160
2024 | 3,140
Total | 8,998
For 2024:
No. resulting in charge/summons | 83 (3%)
Burglary Hotspots:
West Mercia
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 3,506
2023 | 2,557
2024 | 1,812
Total | 7,875
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 30
No. resulting in charge/summons | 99 (5%)
Burglary Hotspots:
West Midlands
No. of Residential Burglarys:
2022 | 15,713
2023 | 13,514
2024 | 10,642
Total | 39,869
For 2024:
No. of Aggravated Burglaries | 258
No. resulting in charge/summons | 611 (6%)
Burglary Hotspots:
FULL AREA LIST | WEST MIDLANDS
Birmingham
- Acocks Green: 138
- Aston: 153
- Bordesley Green: 69
- Bournville: 115
- Brandwood: 104
- Billesley: 77
- Bartley Green: 135
- Birmingham City Centre: 10
- Bordesley Green: 69
- Bournville: 115
- Brandwood: 104
- Brierley Hill: 51
- Bristnall: 44
- Brockmoor and Pensnett: 33
- Castle Bromwich: 36
- Chelmsley Wood: 50
- Coseley East: 53
- Cradley and Wollescote: 62
- Cradley Heath and Old Hill: 45
- Darlaston South: 58
- Dorridge and Hockley Heath: 25
- Earlsdon: 56
- East Park: 41
- Eastside: 11
- Edgbaston: 165
- Elmdon: 33
- Erdington: 119
- Ettingshall: 37
- Fallings Park: 43
- Foleshill: 75
- Friar Park: 36
- Gornal: 42
- Graiseley: 36
- Great Barr with Yew Tree: 44
- Greets Green and Lyng: 47
- Halesowen North: 49
- Halesowen South: 24
- Hall Green: 131
- Handsworth Wood: 167
- Harborne: 151
- Hateley Heath: 63
- Hayley Green and Cradley South: 35
- Henley: 64
- Highgate: 52
- Hodge Hill: 114
- Holbrook: 55
- Jewellery Quarter: 35
- Kings Norton: 125
- Kingshurst and Fordbridge: 66
- Kingstanding: 131
- Kingswinford North and Wall Heath: 25
- Kingswinford South: 38
- Knowle: 25
- Ladywood: 101
- Langley: 52
- Longbridge: 105
- Longford: 67
- Lower Stoke: 82
- Lozells and East Handsworth: 216
- Lye and Stourbridge North: 57
- Lyndon: 33
- Meriden: 38
- Merry Hill: 24
- Moseley and Kings Heath: 142
- Nechells: 24
- Netherton, Woodside and St Andrew’s: 53
- Newton: 24
- Northfield: 81
- Norton: 37
- Old Warley: 44
- Oldbury: 34
- Olton: 41
- Oscott: 111
- Paddock: 38
- Park: 52
- Pedmore and Stourbridge East: 60
- Perry Barr: 76
- Pheasey Park Farm: 37
- Pleck: 45
- Princes End: 54
- Quarry Bank and Dudley Wood: 51
- Quinton: 159
- Radford: 89
- Rowley: 43
- Sedgley: 33
- Selly Oak: 229
- Shard End: 154
- Sheldon: 67
- Sherbourne: 34
- Shirley East: 41
- Shirley South: 24
- Shirley West: 32
- Short Heath: 44
- Silhill: 26
- Small Heath: 48
- Smethwick: 47
- Smith’s Wood: 40
- Soho and Victoria: 50
- Soho Road: 84
- South Yardley: 119
- Southside: 4
- Sparkbrook: 119
- Spring Vale: 19
- Springfield: 138
- St Alphege: 43
- St James’s: 64
- St Matthew’s: 73
- St Michael’s: 224
- St Paul’s: 40
- St Peter’s: 56
- St Thomas’s: 51
- Stechford and Yardley North: 104
- Stockland Green: 211
- Streetly: 31
- Sutton Four Oaks: 48
- Sutton New Hall: 52
- Sutton Trinity: 89
- Sutton Vesey: 94
- Tettenhall Regis: 52
- Tettenhall Wightwick: 17
- Tipton Green: 47
- Tividale: 46
- Tyburn: 105
- Upper Gornal and Woodsetton: 52
- Upper Stoke: 67
- Wainbody: 30
- Washwood Heath: 78
- Wednesbury North: 35
- Wednesbury South: 40
- Wednesfield North: 20
- Wednesfield South: 25
- Weoley: 98
- West Bromwich Central: 77
- Westside: 9
- Westwood: 93
- Whoberley: 75
- Winson Green: 109
- Wollaston and Stourbridge Town: 40
Coventry
- Bablake: 62
- Binley and Willenhall: 82
- Cheylesmore: 61
- Foleshill: 75
- Radford: 89
- Stivichall: 64
Dudley
- Amblecote: 43
- Bilston East: 52
- Bloxwich East: 38
- Dudley Central: 36
- Gornal: 42
Sandwell
- Oldbury: 34
- Wednesbury North: 35
- West Bromwich Central: 77
Solihull
- Shirley East: 41
- Solihull: 44
Walsall
- Aldridge Central and South: 57
- Aldridge North and Walsall Wood: 34
- Bentley and Darlaston North: 37
- Bloxwich West: 26
- Birchills Leamore: 47
- Bloxwich East: 38
- Pelsall: 30
- Palfrey: 32
- Rushall Shelfield: 36
- Walsall North: 51
- Willenhall North: 30
- Willenhall South: 48
Wolverhampton
- Bilston East: 52
- Bilston North: 21
- Bushbury North: 36
- Bushbury South and Low Hill: 31
- Castle and Priory: 49
- Heath Town: 62
- Oxley: 17
- Penn: 20
- Wolverhampton City Centre: 7
- Wolverhampton South: 40
- Tettenhall Regis: 52
- Tettenhall Wightwick: 17
