National-Digital/nsw-recorded-crime-by-lga

Recorded criminal incidents by council area and month, NSW

Criminal incidents recorded by NSW Police in each council area, month by month since January 1995, for 21 offence categories and their subcategories.

This is a copy of the 2026-09-16 version of this dataset on publicdata.au, where it has 3,070,116 rows and 5 fields. The same version is kept at https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-recorded-crime-by-lga/v/2026-09-16/ in 6 formats, with every earlier version and a query API.

Attribution

The data is published by NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research under CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The licence requires this attribution:

NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Recorded criminal incidents by month by LGA, https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-crime-and-policing-statistics, accessed 28 September 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

To cite this version, including where it was serialised:

NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Recorded criminal incidents by month by LGA, https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-crime-and-policing-statistics, accessed 28 September 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-recorded-crime-by-lga/v/2026-09-16/

This is an independent republication. The publisher has not endorsed this site.

Versions

publicdata.au keeps a new version each time the publisher changes the source file, and lists them all at https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-recorded-crime-by-lga/versions.json. This repository tags each version it holds as v<date>, so load_dataset("National-Digital/nsw-recorded-crime-by-lga", revision="v2026-09-16") always returns these rows.

Query it without downloading

The publicdata.au query API filters and totals the newest version of this dataset and needs no key:

https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/nsw-recorded-crime-by-lga/rows?limit=10

Fields

Field	Type	Description
lga	string	Local government area as BOCSAR names it.
offence_category	string	Offence category
subcategory	string	Blank where the category has no subcategories. An asterisk on a name is BOCSAR's own.
month	date	First day of the month the incidents were recorded in.
incidents	integer	Criminal incidents recorded by NSW Police in that month.

publicdata.json beside the data names the version, licence, attribution and the SHA-256 of the publisher's file it was built from.