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Available public reporting based on the 2021 census and 2025 summaries puts the UK Muslim share at roughly 6% of the overall population (Britain-wide), with England specifically around 6.7% and Scotla...
Available sources do not provide a single, directly comparable "per capita knife homicide rate" for the United States in the same format as for Canada, England & Wales or the UK; however, Office for N...
Available evidence does not support a simple claim that immigration is the main driver of rising crime in the UK; academic reviews and UK-focused briefings find mixed or weak links and emphasise data ...
Knife-enabled homicides in England and Wales rose to 262 in the year ending March 2024, up 8% from the prior year, and they accounted for 46% of the 570 homicides in 2023/24 (ONS/Home Office reporting...
ONS Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) provides the most reliable prevalence estimates by ethnicity: CSEW tables (notably Table 4 and Table 2/5 in the Sexual offences prevalence and victim char...
Available official data show the proportion of reported rape offences that reach charge/summons is very low (about 2.8% in the year ending March 2025) and conviction rates for prosecutions vary by dat...
The 2021 Census counted roughly 3.9 million people identifying as Muslim in England and Wales (about 6.5% of that population), up from about 2.7 million in 2011 — an increase of roughly 1.16 million o...
Recent reporting and FOI-based analyses show foreign nationals are disproportionately represented in some UK sexual‑offence statistics: Centre for Migration Control/press reporting says foreign nation...
Official census reporting and multiple analyses show fewer than half of people in the UK now describe themselves as Christian: around 46–46.6% in the 2021 census-derived releases (England & Wales / UK...
London contains the largest Muslim population of any UK city: Greater London had about 1.32 million Muslims in the 2021 census, equal to roughly 15% of the capital’s population . National summaries fr...
Available reporting shows no official UK-wide statistic that “most male rapes in Britain” are committed by immigrants; government agencies say they do not hold comprehensive data on perpetrators’ immi...
Independent estimates disagree but cluster around a similar range: Pew’s scenarios (reported in Wikipedia) project roughly 6.6 million Muslims (12.7% of the UK) in 2050 under zero migration and about ...
London contains the largest Muslim population in the UK: about 15% of Londoners described themselves as Muslim in census reporting, translating to roughly 1.2–1.3 million people in the capital accordi...
London’s crime picture in 2025 is mixed: some headline measures—like homicides and several knife‑crime indicators—have fallen sharply, while other categories (notably theft and overall recorded offenc...
Police-recorded rape in England and Wales reached roughly 70–71 thousand offences in 2024 according to official datasets and widely‑cited compilations, but headline police counts and charity prevalenc...
The most authoritative, publicly available baseline comes from the 2021 England and Wales census, which recorded Muslims as 6.5% of the population (about 3.87–3.9 million people) on census day — the f...
Available official and independent sources do not provide a clean, comparable “crime rate” for Somali migrants in England; Home Office FOI records reportedly lacked nation-by-nation conviction totals ...
Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) data for year ending March 2025 estimate 3.0% of females and 0.7% of males aged 16+ experienced sexual assault (including attempts) in the year — about 739,00...
There is no single authoritative count of “how many mass stabbings” have occurred in the UK in the provided sources; available compilations are incomplete and official statistics track knife offences,...
Police-recorded rape offences in England and Wales were about 55,685 in the 2020/21 reporting year according to GOV.UK commentary on victim‑based offences (note this is presented as 2020/21 not strict...