Key figures: Year to 30 June 2016 | Crime Statistics Agency Victoria

State wide figures

The number of offences recorded by police in the year to 30 June 2016 was 535,826. This is up 13.4% from 472,611 offences recorded in the same period last year.

Family incidents increased in the year to 30 June 2016, up 10% from 70,902 to 78,012.

There were 174,705 offender incidents recorded in the year to 30 June 2016, up 11.2% from 157,130 in the year to 30 June 2015.

Victim reports increased by 14.1% in year ending 30 June 2016 to 321,738 victim reports.

Between year ending June 2016 and 2015, the offence categories that showed a significant upward trend were:
Assault and related offences (up 11.1% from 37,633 to 41,806)
Robbery (up 14.2% from 2,530 to 2,888)
Dangerous and negligent acts endangering people (up 23.1% from 4,338 to 5,341)
Burglary/break and enter (up 12.6% from 46,250 to 52,087)
Theft (up 19.2% from 151,834 to 180,988)
Public nuisance offences (up 30.0% from 2,655 to 3,452)
Justice procedures (up 86.6% from 6,887 to 12,854). Note this increase is in part due to changes in legislation (please see the explanatory notes for information)
Breaches of orders (up 12.2% from 51,525 to 57,794)
Transport regulation offences (up 33.3% from 459 to 612)

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

No other offence category showed a statistically significant trend.

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

Melbourne (25,870.8 offences per 100,000 estimated resident population, down 1.7%)
Latrobe (19,167.0 offences per 100,000 estimated resident population, up 8.6%)
Yarra (14,984.0 offences per 100,000 estimated resident population, up 4.8%)
Horsham (14,532.8 offences per 100,000 estimated resident population, up 0.7%)
Greater Dandenong (13,294.6 offences per 100,000 estimated resident population, up 16.6%)

The number of victims recorded by police in 2015–16 was 246,106. This is up 12.0 per cent compared to 2014–15.
Of the 246,106 victims, 202,263 were person victims and 43,843 were organisations.
Males made up 56.1 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 12.8 per cent of all person victims.
Unique victims aged 65 years and over made up 7.5 per cent of all victims in 2015–16.
91.5 per cent of all person victims made only one report to police in 2015–16.

There were 81,918 alleged offenders recorded by police in 2015–16, up 3.3 per cent compared to 2014–15.
Of the 81,918 alleged offenders, 77.4 per cent (63,439) were males and 22.2 per cent (18,209) were females.
The age group with the highest proportion of alleged offenders was 20–24 year olds, who made up 16.4 per cent of all person offenders.
More than half (56.3 per cent) of all person offenders were between 15 and 35 years of age.
67.2 per cent of all alleged offenders were involved in one incident in 2015–16.
The average number of incidents per offender in 2015–16 was 2.0 incidents per offender.

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