Are a third of domestic abuse victims men?
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By Grace Rahman
‘For every three victims of domestic abuse, two will be female, one will be male.’ –
ManKind Initiative, March 2018
We’ve been asked by a reader to look into what percentage of domestic abuse victims are male.
Males made up 31%, or one in every three, of those aged between 16 and 74 who reported having been the victims of domestic abuse since they were 16. That’s according to a large survey of crime in England and Wales.
This includes those who’ve suffered abuse from a partner or family member, and includes non-physical abuse, threats, force, sexual assault or stalking.
How do we know?
In the year ending March 2018, 29% of women and 13% of men aged 16 to 59 interviewed for the Crime Survey for England and Wales said that they’d experienced some form of domestic abuse since the age of 16.
That’s the equivalent of around 2.2 million men and 4.8 million women in the overall population who are estimated to have experienced domestic abuse since the age of 16—so men acc...
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