By the numbers: Victoria's crime problem keeps growing

VICTORIA'S CRIME STATISTICS FOR YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30:

* Criminal incidents increased to 431,683, an increase of 15 per cent on the year before and the highest since the Crime Statistics Agency started recording in 2004/05

BURGLARIES AND THEFT

* Property and deception offences have the largest increases

* Theft from a motor vehicle offences increased by 13,924 to 68,042

* Theft from a retail store jumped by 9635 to 35,951 offences

* Other theft offences grew by 8842 to 53,894, in particular petrol theft

* Stealing motor vehicles role by 6408 to 25,773

* There were 28,432 home burglaries

* Aggravated burglaries most common in metropolitan Melbourne, with one third linked to stolen cars

FAMILY VIOLENCE

* Victoria recorded more than 100,000 family violence incidents for the first time

* A total of 102,082 family violence incidents were responded to, an increase of 8850

* Thirty women killed, including 12 in regional Victoria

* Aggravated assault of a female increased by 92.2 per cent year-on-year

* Accounts for one fifth of all crime in Victoria

* A third of perpetrators are repeat offenders

* Repeat offenders are most prevalent in regional Victoria

CHILD AND YOUTH CRIME

* Those aged 10 to 24 were behind 50,516 incidents, an increase of 13.5 per cent

* Crimes by children aged 10 to 17 have reached their highest levels since 2009

* Teens aged 14 to 17 were responsible for the most child crime, totalling 20,753

* The same age range accounted for 75 per cent of first time child offenders

* Children aged 10 to 17 and youths aged 18 to 24 account for almost half of all aggravated burglary offenders

LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AREAS WITH HIGHEST CRIMINAL INCIDENTS PER 100,000 PEOPLE

* Melbourne 16,250.9

* Yarra 11,829.5

* Latrobe 11,742.9

* Mildura 10,912.2

* Maribyrnong 9611.5

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