Motor Vehicle Theft — methodology
Category: Equality & Inclusion · Unit: victims per year · Published annual
What this metric measures
Recorded victims of motor vehicle theft in Australia each calendar year (ABS Recorded Crime - Victims).
Why it matters: 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.
Source & provenance
- Publisher
- ABS Recorded Crime - Victims (Cat. 4510.0) - motor vehicle theft
- Update frequency
- annual
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
How the score is computed
This metric is in a category that is tracked but does not contribute to the National Snapshot Index.
See related corrections at /corrections, or the live data and chart at https://www.australiametrics.org/metric/motor-vehicle-theft.