The data files below are very large and are suitable for researchers.

Recorded Crime Dataset

The Recorded crime datasets contain information on all criminal incidents recorded by NSW Police between January 1995 and December 2011. The data is presented by offence type, month and Local Government Area.

The dataset is provided in an Excel spreadsheet and compressed to download efficiently as a winzip file. For information about winzip files visit www.winzip.com.

Recorded crime dataset.zip (1.5Mb compressed zip file)
Recorded crime dataset.xls (12.9Mb excel spreadsheet)

Ranking dataset

The Ranking dataset contains information on annual criminal incidents, rates per 100,000 population and ranks for selected offences recorded by NSW Police between January 2007 and December 2011 for each NSW Local Government Area.

Please note that each offence is displayed in a separate tab of the Excel workbook.

Ranking dataset (1.4 mb excel spreadsheet)