victims per 100,000 people - Source frequency: annual · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's sexual assault victims was 144 victims per 100,000 people as of January 2025. Recorded victims of sexual assault per 100,000 people. Replaces the old hand-typed crime rate - ABS Recorded Crime - Victims publishes no assault or total-offences national series. Sexual assault is the headline violent crime the ABS tracks continuously; the rate shows whether it is becoming more or less common relative to population. Data is sourced from ABS Recorded Crime - Victims (Cat. 4510.0) - sexual assault victimisation rate, per 100,000 persons and updated annually.
Recorded victims of sexual assault per 100,000 people. Replaces the old hand-typed crime rate - ABS Recorded Crime - Victims publishes no assault or total-offences national series.
Sexual assault is the headline violent crime the ABS tracks continuously; the rate shows whether it is becoming more or less common relative to population.
Lower is better
Source: ABS Recorded Crime - Victims (Cat. 4510.0) - sexual assault victimisation rate, per 100,000 persons
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Recorded Crime - Victims (Cat. 4510.0) - sexual assault victimisation rate, per 100,000 persons), updated annually. The source link above points to the human-readable publication page, which presents the same underlying data in a different format (e.g. Excel workbook, PDF release). Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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