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Aggravated Burglary — Methodology and Sources

Last reviewed: 2026-05-17

What this measures

Recorded aggravated burglary offences in Victoria — residential, non-residential, and unknown categories combined. From the Vic Crime Statistics Agency Recorded Offences dataset, sum of subgroups B311 + B312 + B319.

Why annual calendar-year

The CSA publishes "year ending December" totals, which are calendar-year rolling sums. This site uses fiscal years for fiscal/tax charts but follows CSA's cadence for crime data — different but documented.

Why aggregate the three subgroups

"Aggravated burglary" is one specific offence type defined by Vic legislation (Crimes Act 1958 s77). CSA splits it three ways by location (residential / non-residential / unknown) but the legal definition and severity are the same — so the chart shows the total. The split would belong on a sub-detail chart not the headline.

The recent surge

Aggravated burglary counts roughly doubled between 2018 (3,545) and 2024 (7,897). The increase is widely attributed to a documented rise in youth offending and home invasions involving theft of high-end vehicles (which then show up in the motor vehicle theft chart). The brief intentionally shows each crime category separately rather than aggregated, exactly because trends diverge sharply by category.

Sources

The Victoria Ledger

Victoria's last decade across fiscal, tax, workforce, capital, services, crime, and economy, plotted as continuous time series. Every figure traceable to an official primary source.

Last refreshed 2026-06-11. Data refreshes follow each new release from the underlying agencies.

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