Key Figures: Year ending 30 June 2017

State wide figures

  • The number of offences recorded by police in the year to 30 June 2017 was 533,194. This is down 0.6% from 536,287 offences recorded in the same period last year.
  • Family incidents decreased in the year to 30 June 2017, down 1.9% from 78,006 to 76,500.
  • There were 178,935 offender incidents recorded, up 6.4% from 168,103 in the year to June 2016.
  • Victim reports increased in the year to 30 June 2017 by 0.7% to 323,576 victim reports.

Offence trends

From July 2015 to June 2017, the major offence categories that showed significant upward trends were:

  • Robbery (up 10.6% from 2,887 to 3,192)
  • Dangerous and negligent acts endangering people (up 14.4% from 5,319 to 6,087)
  • Transport regulation offences (up 37.3% from 611 to 839)

From July 2015 to June 2017, one offence subdivision showed a significant downward trend:

  • Drug dealing and trafficking (down 14.6% from 5,208 to 4,450)

Local Government Area level figures

The five Local Government Areas with the highest offence rates were:

  1. Melbourne (25,412.3 offences per 100,000 estimated resident population, down 4.4%)
  2. Latrobe (18,883.9 offences per 100,000 estimated resident population, down 0.8%)
  3. Yarra (14,146.4 offences per 100,000 estimated resident population, down 6.7%)
  4. Greater Shepparton (12,964.0 offences per 100,000 estimated resident population, up 2.3%)
  5. Horsham (12,933.2 offences per 100,000 estimated resident population, down 11.5%)

Unique victims

  • The number of victims recorded by police in 2016–17 was 246,166. This is up 0.2 per cent compared to 2015–16.
  • Of the 246,166 victims, 202,912 were person victims and 43,254 were organisations.
  • Males made up 56.2 per cent of all person victims, with female victims comprising 42.9 per cent.
  • The age group with the highest proportion of victims was 25–29 year olds, who made up 12.6 per cent of all person victims.
  • Unique victims aged 65 years and over made up 7.6 per cent of all victims in 2016–17.
  • 91.8 per cent of all person victims made only one report to police in 2016–17.

Unique alleged offenders

  • There were 82,486 alleged offenders recorded by police in 2016–17, up 4.2 per cent compared to 2015–16.
  • Of the 82,486 alleged offenders, 77.1 per cent (63,627) were males and 22.5 per cent (18,581) were females.
  • The age group with the highest proportion of alleged offenders was 20–24 year olds, who made up 15.6 per cent of all person offenders.
  • More than half (55.6 per cent) of all person offenders were between 15 and 34 years of age.
  • 66.4 per cent of all alleged offenders were involved in one incident in 2016–17.
  • The average number of incidents per offender in 2016–17 was 2.1 incidents per offender.

For a detailed breakdown of the data, click to view the crime statistics annual release (External link)

For a breakdown of offences at the LGA level, click to access the CSA crime by location tool (External link)

For explanatory information and definitions for the latest release, see the explanatory notes (External link) and glossary (External link)