Domestic abuse (FOI REF:4/26)

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Request

Can you please provide the details of the number of Domestic Abuse Victims reporting to your Police Authority broken down as follows:

Q1. For the period 1st January 2025 to 31st December 2025 inclusive by Age, Ethnic Origin and Gender.

For ease of reference, please incorporate a summary total by Age, Ethnic Origin and Gender both Force Wide and by Police Division.

Please provide the information in Excel Spreadsheet format.

Response

Please find enclosed our response.

Please be advised that the data is provided in PDF as this is deemed the most secure format to avoid any possibility of `hidden data` being inadvertently shared.

However, it can be converted by the user into CSV or excel. There are guidelines how to do this available on the internet.

The data provided is based on the number of recorded crimes for domestic abuse have been recorded. He victim detail is not always available, and sometimes the victim may have reported more than one matter created more crimes under their name. Therefore, some records may be duplicated victims.

Data relating to Victim Age, Ethnicity, and Gender may include duplicates for the following reasons:

a) Crime Number may include duplicates where more than 1 victim has been identified
b) There may be more than 1 Crime Number for the same Victim, where they may have reported more than 1 crime

Victim Age Group	Birmingham	Coventry	Dudley	Sandwell	Solihull	Walsall	Wolverhampton	Not recorded
10 years or under	97	14	10	16	16	16	32	0
11 to 20 years	2,388	523	467	637	253	496	504	36
21 to 30 years	6,129	1,280	1,166	1,759	610	1,295	1,250	77
31 to 40 years	6,417	1,471	1,422	1,863	736	1,521	1,444	96
41 to 50 years	4,217	1,032	897	1,213	443	955	960	46
51 to 60 years	2,059	484	511	708	259	459	457	24
61 to 70 years	963	213	217	351	110	213	238	3
71 to 80 years	350	116	88	116	38	76	100	2
81 to 90 years	142	37	44	45	23	29	42	2
91 to 95 years	11	3	5	0	1	3	9	0
96 to 100 years	0	2	3	0	0	0	1	0
entered as 100 years+	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	0
Data Quality	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0
-	29	5	6	4	5	0	4	0
blank	22	4	0	2	1	1	3	0
Total	22,826	5,185	4,836	6,717	2,496	5,064	5,045	286

“- “indicates that there has been nothing inputted.

Victim Gender	Birmingham	Coventry	Dudley	Sandwell	Solihull	Walsall	Wolverhampton	Not recorded
Female	15,512	3,600	3,287	4,606	1,752	3,491	3,475	192
Male	5,329	1,147	1,124	1,585	589	1,211	1,188	61
Indeterminate	3	1	0	3	0	0	1	0
Unknown	85	21	17	16	5	15	16	1
Unspecified	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Not recorded	1,896	416	408	507	150	347	365	32
Total	22,826	5,185	4,836	6,717	2,496	5,064	5,045	286

Victim Ethnicity (Self Assessed)	Birmingham	Coventry	Dudley	Sandwell	Solihull	Walsall	Wolverhampton	not recorded
African	347	97	27	72	9	65	107	3
Any Other Asian Background	294	57	39	86	22	38	37	4
Any Other Black Background	162	22	17	53	5	22	40	1
Any Other Ethnic Group	120	19	12	49	14	20	24	1
Any Other Mixed Background	142	17	20	32	12	16	25	1
Any Other White Background	305	137	59	109	31	73	94	6
Arab	37	3	7	8	4	1	4	0
Bangladeshi	228	20	2	69	7	28	6	1
Caribbean	713	36	49	214	22	105	140	6
Chinese	28	6	1	3	3	1	2	1
Gypsy or Irish Traveller	9	0	1	1	2	0	0	0
Indian	389	166	55	452	37	163	276	8
Pakistani	1,766	62	114	251	92	162	47	11
White And Asian	118	14	9	29	14	18	22	1
White And Black African	38	12	5	12	1	5	6	0
White And Black Caribbean	439	31	76	131	61	87	158	10
White British	6,154	1,843	2,066	2,055	1,140	2,033	1,626	77
White Irish	104	20	20	8	28	37	18	1
Not stated	2,675	610	470	682	276	478	493	31
Not recorded	8,758	2,013	1,787	2,401	716	1,712	1,920	123
Total	22,826	5,185	4,836	6,717	2,496	5,064	5,045	286

Victim Ethnicity (Appearance)	Birmingham	Coventry	Dudley	Sandwell	Solihull	Walsall	Wolverhampton	not recorded
Arabic Or North African	159	26	23	39	15	5	17	2
Asian	4,052	488	313	1,246	212	582	564	33
Bangladeshi	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Black	1,100	201	93	294	74	161	259	17
Chinese, Japanese, Or Any Other Southeast Asian	59	16	4	10	6	2	5	2
White - North European	3,696	1,150	1,384	1,293	771	1,301	1,042	65
White - South European	173	60	38	46	18	26	23	2
Unknown	1,369	304	251	342	143	287	266	19
not recorded	12,215	2,940	2,730	3,447	1,257	2,700	2,869	146
Total	22,826	5,185	4,836	6,717	2,496	5,064	5,045	286

Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that this data has been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request may be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting the data.

The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of data which has relevance to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations, and this should be taken into account when those data are used.

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.

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Domestic abuse (FOI REF:4/26)