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Historical trend
Trend summary
The Crime Survey for England and Wales estimated 3.6 million fraud and computer misuse incidents in the year to June 2024.
Trend
- Fraud and computer misuse have been the highest-volume crime category since being added to the CSEW in 2016.
- CSEW estimates have fluctuated in the 3.5–4.5 million range since 2017, showing no clear directional trend.
- Action Fraud referrals (police-recorded) show a greater year-to-year variability than CSEW estimates.
Context
- The CSEW fraud module covers fraud experienced by adults aged 16 and over in private households; it excludes business fraud.
- Computer misuse offences are published within the same bulletin by ONS; they include unauthorised access and malware attacks.
Trend summary generated by claude-sonnet-4-6 on 23 January 2025. Contains no editorial judgement — describes direction, magnitude, and official projections only.
About this indicator
- Source
- Home Office
- Update frequency
- Annual
- Last updated
- 25 July 2024 Data may be out of date
- Licence
- OGL v3
- Rising trend is…
- Negative
Statistics
- Latest
- 4733486.0 offences
- Period high
- 4733486.0
- Period low
- 3736861.0
- Period average
- 4218885.1