NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research - Recorded Crime Statistics quarterly update June 2021

15/09/2021

New statistics released today by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) show that crime across most of NSW has remained stable or fallen in the two years to June 2021. As previously reported, all high-volume property and many violent crimes fell sharply in April 2020 in line with measures to reduce the spread of the pandemic.

Since then most violent offending, including domestic assault, non-domestic assault and robbery, has returned to pre-pandemic levels. By contrast, many property offences, including theft and break and enter, remain below pre-pandemic levels.

In the 24 months to June 2021 one of the 17 major crime categories was trending upwards, six were trending downwards and the remaining ten were stable. The offences trending downwards were:

• Break and enter dwelling – Down 16.6%

• Motor vehicle theft – Down 8.6%

• Steal from retail store – Down 13.9%

• Steal from dwelling – Down 9.8%

• Steal from person – Down 28.4%

• Fraud – Down 11.5%.

The only major offence to show a significant upward trend in the 24 months to June 2021 was sexual assault. Recorded incidents of sexual assault rose 21.0 % year-on-year to June 2021 (up 1,367 incidents).

The BOCSAR media release and a link to the Report summary are available here.

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