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Location of violent crime statistics

The Australian Bureau of Statistics classifies crime locations according to the function of the site where a criminal incident occurred. There are three broad locations:

• residential (including houses, garages/carports, motels and hostels)
• community (including car parks, transport facilities, street/footpaths and schools)
• other (including retail premises, recreational facilities, government offices and warehousing/storage).

Location type of violent crimes in 2007 (number)

	Murder	Assault	Sexual assault	Robbery	Kidnapping
a: Total includes locations not further defined
n.a.: not available
Residential
Dwelling	152	n.a.	n.a.	1,549	203
Outbuilding/residential land	4	n.a.	n.a.	123	6
Total residentiala	162	78,575	13,033	1,693	212
Community
Transport	3	n.a.	n.a.	1,495	29
Street/footpath	40	n.a.	n.a.	8,234	326
Other community	15	n.a.	n.a.	955	53
Total communitya	62	61,074	3,676	10,734	408
Other
Retail	8	n.a.	n.a.	3,592	45
Recreational	10	n.a.	n.a.	878	26
Other location	5	n.a.	n.a.	970	29
Total othera	23	35,484	2,319	5,440	100
Unspecified location	6	1,294	723	121	12
Total	253	176,427	19,751	17,988	732

• Of all murders (n = 253), 64 percent occurred in a residential location; of all robberies (n = 17,988), 90 percent occurred outside the home.
• Of all assaults (n = 176,427), 45 percent occurred in residential locations and 35 percent in community locations.
• Streets and footpaths represented the most common location for robberies (46% of 17,988) and kidnappings (45% of 732).
• Of all sexual assaults (n = 19,751), two-thirds (66%) occurred in residential locations.

• Between 2000 and 2007, violent crimes declined in most categories of location, although the decrease was not uniform among all location types.
• There was an increase from 2006 to 2007 in the number of violent crimes carried out in residential and transport settings, on streets and footpaths, and in other community settings.
• Violent crimes perpetrated in retail locations declined by 14 percent between 2006 and 2007. Since 2000, there has been an overall fall of 42 percent.
• The number of violent crimes per year at recreational locations fell by 34 percent from 2000 to 2007.

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