NSW Crime and policing statistics

Quarterly recorded crime reports and datasets

The quarterly recorded crime reports are available from 2004 and annually from 1997. They contains statistics and graphs relating to the 62 offences BOCSAR reports on, with trends rates and ratios for LGAs and Statistical Areas.

The datasets are produced quarterly for all of NSW and broken down by LGA, postcode and suburb for the 62 offences. The data includes incident counts by month from 1995

Data Source:

Data.NSW

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Archived crime reports

The quarterly recorded crime reports are available from 2004 and annually from 1997. They contains statistics and graphs relating to the 62 offences BOCSAR...

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Recorded criminal incidents by month – all of NSW

The dataset contains incident counts by the 62 offences by month from 1995. The 2 and 5 year trends are also included for the 17 major offences.

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Recorded criminal incidents by month – by LGA

The quarterly recorded crime dataset by LGA contains incident counts by month from 1995 for the 62 offences BOCSAR reports on

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Quarterly recorded crime dataset by Suburb

The quarterly dataset contains incident counts for the 62 offences BOCSAR reports on by month from 1995 by suburb.

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Recorded criminal incidents by month – by postcode

The quarterly dataset contains incident counts for each of the 62 offences BOCSAR reports on by month from 1995 by postcode

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2 and 10 year trends for 62 offence categories, NSW

2 year and 5 year trends for the 17 major offences in NSW

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2 and 10 year trends for 62 offence categories, by Statis...

2 and 5 year trends for the 17 major offences by Statistical Area

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2 and 10 year trends for 62 offence categories, by LGA

2 and 5 year trends for the 17 major offences by LGA

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CKAN Data API

Access resource data via a web API with powerful query support. Further information in the main CKAN Data API and DataStore documentation.

Code examples:

curl JavaScript PowerShell Python R

Querying

Get 5 results containing "jones" in any field:

curl https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search \
  -H"Authorization:$API_TOKEN" -d '
{
  "resource_id": "f69edb1e-a26d-4d5d-a963-593182ce55d8",
  "limit": 5,
  "q": "jones"
}'

const resp = await fetch(`https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search`, {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
        'content-type': 'application/json',
        authorization: API_TOKEN
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
        resource_id: 'f69edb1e-a26d-4d5d-a963-593182ce55d8',
        limit: 5,
        q: 'jones'
    })
})
await resp.json()

$json = @'
{
  "resource_id": "f69edb1e-a26d-4d5d-a963-593182ce55d8",
  "limit": 5,
  "q": "jones"
}
'@
$response = Invoke-RestMethod https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search`
  -Method Post -Body $json -Headers @{"Authorization"="$API_TOKEN"}
$response.result.records

(using the ckanapi client library)

from ckanapi import RemoteCKAN

rc = RemoteCKAN('https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/', apikey=API_TOKEN)
result = rc.action.datastore_search(
    resource_id="f69edb1e-a26d-4d5d-a963-593182ce55d8",
    limit=5,
    q="jones",
)
print(result['records'])

library(httr2)

req <- request("https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search")
result <- req %>% 
    req_headers(Authorization = API_TOKEN) %>% 
    req_body_json(list(
        resource_id = 'f69edb1e-a26d-4d5d-a963-593182ce55d8',
        limit = 5,
        q = 'jones'))
    req_perform %>% 
    resp_body_json

Get results with either "watershed" or "survey" as subject and "active" as its stage:

curl https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search \
-H"Authorization:$API_TOKEN" -d '
{
"resource_id": "f69edb1e-a26d-4d5d-a963-593182ce55d8",
  "filters": {
    "subject": ["watershed", "survey"],
    "stage": "active"
  }
}'

const resp = await fetch(`https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search`, {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
        'content-type': 'application/json',
        authorization: API_TOKEN
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({resource_id: 'f69edb1e-a26d-4d5d-a963-593182ce55d8', filters: {
        subject: ['watershed', 'survey'],
        stage: 'active'
    }})})
await resp.json()

$json = @'
{
  "resource_id": "f69edb1e-a26d-4d5d-a963-593182ce55d8",
  "filters": {
    "subject": ["watershed", "survey"],
    "stage": "active"
  }
}
'@
$response = Invoke-RestMethod https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search`
  -Method Post -Body $json -Headers @{"Authorization"="$API_TOKEN"}
$response.result.records

from ckanapi import RemoteCKAN

rc = RemoteCKAN('https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/', apikey=API_TOKEN)
result = rc.action.datastore_search(
    resource_id="f69edb1e-a26d-4d5d-a963-593182ce55d8",
    filters={
      "subject": ["watershed", "survey"],
      "stage": "active",
    },
)
print(result['records'])

library(httr2)

req <- request("https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search")
result <- req %>% 
    req_headers(Authorization = API_TOKEN) %>% 
    req_body_json(list(
        resource_id='f69edb1e-a26d-4d5d-a963-593182ce55d8', 
        filters = list(
            subject = list("watershed", "survey"), 
            stage = "active")))
    req_perform %>% 
    resp_body_json

Using the API with this Web Browser

Some API endpoints may be accessed using a GET query string.

Query example (first 5 results)

https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id=f69edb1e-a26d-4d5d-a963-593182ce55d8&limit=5

Query example (results containing 'jones')

https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id=f69edb1e-a26d-4d5d-a963-593182ce55d8&q=jones

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Long term trends in violent and property offences

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NSW Crime and policing statistics

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Additional Information

Field	Value
Title	NSW Crime and policing statistics
Date Published	27/07/2016
Last Updated	28/04/2026
Publisher/Agency	NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research
Licence	Creative Commons Attribution
Update Frequency	Quarterly
Contact Point	NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research bcsr@justice.nsw.gov.au
Temporal Coverage	From 09/04/2019
Data Portal	Data.NSW