2025 Male Victims of Domestic Abuse – Statistics

• The latest Office for National Statistics figures (2022/23) show that one in three victims of domestic abuse are male equating to 751,000 men (3.2%) and 1.38 million women (5.7%). From this, 483,000 men and 964,000 women are victims of partner abuse. (ONS 2022/23).

14.1% of men and 29.3% of women aged 16 and over have experienced some form of domestic abuse since the age of 16 (2021/22) equivalent to an estimated 3.3 million male victims and 7.1 million female victims. For every three victims of domestic abuse, two will be female, one will be male. One in four women and one in six to seven men suffer from domestic abuse in their lifetime. 3.0% of men (699,000) and 6.9% of women (1.671 million) aged 16 and over were victims of domestic abuse in 2021/22 equating to a ratio of two female victims to every one male victim. For every three victims of domestic abuse, two will be female, one will be male. As can be seen, domestic abuse has been falling for both women and men for some years. These trend figures are for adults between 16 and 59 from March 2005. The current figures of 3.5% men and 7.9% women for 2021/22 for that age group and shows a relative narrowing of the gap since they were first measured.