offences per 100,000 persons - Source frequency: annual · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's crime rate was 5,300 offences per 100,000 persons as of January 2025, and the trend is broadly stable. Number of recorded criminal offences per 100,000 people, split by violent and non-violent categories. Crime rates affect community safety, wellbeing, and economic activity. Tracking trends reveals whether communities are becoming safer. Data is sourced from ABS Recorded Crime — Victims (Cat. 4510.0); ABS Recorded Crime — Offenders and updated annually.
Number of recorded criminal offences per 100,000 people, split by violent and non-violent categories.
Crime rates affect community safety, wellbeing, and economic activity. Tracking trends reveals whether communities are becoming safer.
Lower is better
Source: ABS Recorded Crime — Victims (Cat. 4510.0); ABS Recorded Crime — Offenders
GREEN = favourable trend within acceptable band of baseline. AMBER = flat or mild change. RED = unfavourable trend beyond threshold.
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Recorded Crime — Victims (Cat. 4510.0); ABS Recorded Crime — Offenders), 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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