victims per year - Source frequency: annual · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's motor vehicle theft was 67k victims per year as of January 2025. Recorded victims of motor vehicle theft in Australia each calendar year (ABS Recorded Crime - Victims). Vehicle theft is a high-volume property crime that directly affects households and insurers, and it is a clean read on whether property crime is rising or falling. Data is sourced from ABS Recorded Crime - Victims (Cat. 4510.0) - motor vehicle theft and updated annually.
Recorded victims of motor vehicle theft in Australia each calendar year (ABS Recorded Crime - Victims).
Vehicle theft is a high-volume property crime that directly affects households and insurers, and it is a clean read on whether property crime is rising or falling.
Lower is better
Source: ABS Recorded Crime - Victims (Cat. 4510.0) - motor vehicle theft
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Recorded Crime - Victims (Cat. 4510.0) - motor vehicle theft), updated annually. Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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