Property Crime Decline

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Recorded crime, victims, Australia annual publication, property crime has undergone dramatic decline in recent years.
Property crime includes unlawful entry with intent (UEWI) and motor vehicle theft (MVT). In the period 1993-2005, the rate per 100,000 population of UEWI has been approximately steady at between 2,100 and 2,320 until 2001. Between 2001 and 2005 the UEWI rate declined by 38 percent, from 2,245 to 1,398 per 100,000. The rate of MVT increased from 637 in 1993 to 721 in 2001, thereafter declining to 397 per 100,000 in 2005 - a decrease of 45 percent.  This downward trend in property crime in the last four years is also apparent in results from victimisation surveys such as the Australian component of the International Crime Victimisation Survey (Johnson 2005) and the National Crime and Safety Survey (ABS 2006). Information provided by Australian Bureau of Statistics 2003-2006. Recorded crime, victims, Australia [various issues]. ABS cat. no. 4510.0. Canberra: ABS.

Trends in property crime, rates per 100,000 population, 1993 - 2005