Key figures: Year to 30 June 2015

Unique victims
  • The number of victims recorded by police in 2014-15 was 220,088. This is down 0.2 per cent compared to 2013-14 but stable.
  • Of the 220,088 victims, 180,960 were person victims and 39,128 were organisations.
  • Males made up 55.7 per cent of all person victims, with female victims comprising 43.4 per cent.
  • The age group with the highest proportion of victims was 25-29 year olds, who made up 12.9 per cent of all person victims.
  • Unique victims aged 65 years and over made up 7.3 per cent of all victims in 2014-15
  • 92 per cent of all person victims made only one report to police in 2014-15.

 

Unique alleged offenders

  • 82,280 people were recorded as alleged offenders by police in 2014-15, up 1.8 per cent compared to 2013-14.
  • Of the 82,280 alleged offenders, 78 per cent (64,164) were males and 22 per cent (17,797) were females.
  • The age group with the highest proportion of alleged offenders was 20'24 year olds, who made up 17.9 per cent of all offenders.
  • More than half (57.9 per cent) of all offenders were between 15 and 35 years of age.
  • 68.9 per cent of all alleged offenders were involved in one incident in 2014-15.
  • The average number of incidents per offender in 2014-15 was 1.9 incidents per offender.

 

State wide figures

  • The number of offences recorded by police in the year to 30 June 2015 was 469,830. This is up 4.6% from 449,307 offences recorded in the same period last year.
  • Family incidents increased in the year to 30 June 2015, up 8.8% from 65,180 to 70,906.
  • There were 164,133 offender incidents recorded in the year to 30 June 2015, up 7.9% from 152,148 in the year to June 2014.
  • Victim reports decreased by 0.6% in year ending June 2015 to 282,136 victim reports.

 

Offence trends

Between year ending June 2015 and 2014, the major offence categories that showed a significant upward trend were:

  • Stalking, harassment and threatening behaviour (up 12.9% from 10,773 to 12,162)
  • Dangerous and negligent acts endangering people (up 4.6% from 4,203 to 4,395)
  • Drug dealing and trafficking (up 20.2% from 4,115 to 4,947)
  • Drug use and possession (up 22.0% from 17,963 to 21,919)
  • Weapons and explosives offences (up 12.0% from 12,859 to 14,404)
  • Breaches of orders (up 39.4% from 36,496 to 50,888)

The major offence categories that showed a significant downward trend were:

  • Disorderly and offensive conduct (down 9.9% from 21,416 to 19,306)
  • Other government regulatory offences (down 40.3% from 1,108 to 662)

No other offence category showed a statistically significant trend.

 

Local Government Area level figures

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

  1. Melbourne (25,985.5 offences per 100,000 estimated resident population, up 0.7%)
  2. Latrobe (17,398.0 offences per 100,000 estimated resident population, up 20.1%)
  3. Yarra (14,243.1 offences per 100,000 estimated resident population, up 0.2%)
  4. Horsham (14,181.0 offences per 100,000 estimated resident population, up 37.4%)
  5. Greater Shepparton (11,437.2 offences per 100,000 estimated resident population, up 4.8%)

 

For a detailed breakdown of the data, click to view the crime statistics quarterly release

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

For explanatory information and definitions for the latest release, see the explanatory notes and glossary