NSW Crime Statistics by LGA and Suburb, 1995 Onwards

New South Wales quarterly recorded crime reports and datasets from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. The data includes incident counts by month from 1995, with annual reports from 1997 and quarterly reports from 2004. Statistics cover 62 offence types and are broken down by Local Government Area, postcode, and suburb.

Use Cases

• Modeling temporal crime trends based on monthly incident counts from 1995
• Analyzing geographic crime patterns based on breakdowns by Local Government Area, postcode, and suburb
• Comparing offence rates across different demographic regions for the 62 reported crime types

Strengths

• Long temporal coverage with monthly data starting in 1995
• Granular geographic breakdowns by Local Government Area, postcode, and suburb
• Covers a specific set of 62 offence types reported by BOCSAR

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research

Collection Method

Quarterly recorded crime reports

Time Range

1995 onwards (monthly from 1995, annual from 1997, quarterly from 2004)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-04 03:39:26.986509; freshness should be verified

Geography

New South Wales, Australia