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Suburb - Crime

Recorded crime (ACT)

GET/v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/crime/recorded-offences-act5¢ per call

Police-recorded offences in Canberra by suburb, per calendar year for 2015-2024, by offence type.

Coverage: ACT: 115 suburbs; calendar years 2015-2024. Current to 2024-12-31. Full description, field list and method: /v1/datasets/recorded-crime-act.

Exact suburb identifier required. Exact official suburb name (SAL), e.g. Burwood (NSW) — many suburbs carry a state suffix. If starting from free text or an unverified bare name, first call GET /v1/geocode/suburb?q=<text>, then use the exact data[].area_name it returns. Suburb data endpoints do not guess a state or typo-correct names.

Authorization

Bearer tokentest

Sandbox key test works for the allowlisted GNAF + SAL — no signup.

Request

The only values you send. Fields under Responses below are what comes back — you never pass those.

Path parameters

suburb_namestringrequired

Exact official suburb name (SAL), e.g. `Burwood (NSW)` — many suburbs carry a state suffix. If starting from free text or an unverified bare name, first call `GET /v1/geocode/suburb?q=<text>`, then use the exact `data[].area_name` it returns. Suburb data endpoints do not guess a state or typo-correct names.

Query parameters

fieldsstringoptional

Comma-separated subset of: total_offences, armed_robbery, burglary_of_dwellings, burglary_of_shops, family_violence_assault, homicide, motor_vehicle_theft, non_family_violence_assault, other_burglary, other_offences, other_offences_against_a_person, other_robbery, property_damage, sexual_assault, theft_excluding_motor_vehicles. Omit for all.

fromstringoptional

First period to include: 2020, 2020-Q3, 2020-07 or 2020-07-01.

tostringoptional

Last period to include, same formats as `from`.

Responses

Successful Response

application/json

DatasetValuesfields returned to you

datasetstringalways returned

Dataset slug; describe it with /v1/datasets/{slug}.

levelstringalways returned

suburb, lga or block.

areastringalways returned

Canonical name (or mesh-block code) of the area answered.

period_typestringalways returned

snapshot, year, financial_year, quarter or month.

as_ofstring · datealways returned

Date the dataset is current to. Values are never withheld for age; check this instead.

modelledbooleanalways returned

True when the figures are estimates from a model rather than counts or measurements.

fieldsarray of DatasetFieldSeriesalways returned

GET/v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/crime/recorded-offences-act

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.microburbs.com.au/v1/suburbs/Belmont%20North/crime/recorded-offences-act' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer test'

Example Responses

Show schema

{
  "data": {
    "dataset": "recorded-crime-act",
    "level": "suburb",
    "area": "Kambah",
    "period_type": "year",
    "as_of": "2024-12-31",
    "modelled": false,
    "fields": [
      {
        "field": "total_offences",
        "name": "Total recorded offences",
        "unit": "count",
        "values": [
          {
            "period": "2022",
            "period_start": "2022-01-01",
            "value": 736
          },
          {
            "period": "2023",
            "period_start": "2023-01-01",
            "value": 663
          },
          {
            "period": "2024",
            "period_start": "2024-01-01",
            "value": 535
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "field": "armed_robbery",
        "name": "Armed robbery",
        "unit": "count",
        "values": [
          {
            "period": "2022",
            "period_start": "2022-01-01",
            "value": 3
          },
          {
            "period": "2023",
            "period_start": "2023-01-01",
            "value": 8
          },
          {
            "period": "2024",
            "period_start": "2024-01-01",
            "value": 3
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "field": "burglary_of_dwellings",
        "name": "Burglary of dwellings",
        "unit": "count",
        "values": [
          {
            "period": "2022",
            "period_start": "2022-01-01",
            "value": 36
          },
          {
            "period": "2023",
            "period_start": "2023-01-01",
            "value": 31
          },
          {
            "period": "2024",
            "period_start": "2024-01-01",
            "value": 11
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

Successful Response200

application/json

About this dataset

ACT: 115 suburbs; calendar years 2015-2024. Current to 2024-12-31; refreshed yearly.

What it is

Offences recorded by police in the Australian Capital Territory, counted per calendar year for the last ten complete years, by suburb. Each offence type is its own field, plus a total.

What it shows

The number of offences police recorded for each offence type in each suburb and year: homicide, assault (family violence and other), sexual assault, other offences against a person, armed and other robbery, burglary of homes, shops and other premises, motor vehicle theft, other theft, property damage, other offences, and a total of all offences. Traffic infringement notices are not included.

Why use it

Real recorded counts, not a model, for checking whether a Canberra suburb is getting safer or worse, comparing it with its neighbours, and backing a report with official-grade numbers.

How it is built

We take the quarterly offence counts police publish for each suburb, sum them to calendar years and match each suburb to our names. A few non-residential or rural areas (for example Black Mountain, Duntroon, Majura) have no matching suburb of ours and are left out. Counts are offences recorded by police, not convictions, and they rise when police target an offence (drug and weapons detections especially). Counts are not divided by population; a busy commercial centre records far more than a residential suburb of the same size. A period with no recorded offence of a type is returned as 0. Offence categories follow the state's own scheme and are not comparable one-to-one between states.

Fields

Field	Unit	Description
`total_offences` Total recorded offences	count	All police-recorded offences in the area for the calendar year, summed across every offence type.
`armed_robbery` Armed robbery	count	Number of police-recorded offences of armed robbery in the area during the calendar year.
`burglary_of_dwellings` Burglary of dwellings	count	Number of police-recorded offences of burglary of dwellings in the area during the calendar year.
`burglary_of_shops` Burglary of shops	count	Number of police-recorded offences of burglary of shops in the area during the calendar year.
`family_violence_assault` Family violence assault	count	Number of police-recorded offences of family violence assault in the area during the calendar year.
`homicide` Homicide	count	Number of police-recorded offences of homicide in the area during the calendar year.
`motor_vehicle_theft` Motor vehicle theft	count	Number of police-recorded offences of motor vehicle theft in the area during the calendar year.
`non_family_violence_assault` Non-family-violence assault	count	Number of police-recorded offences of non-family-violence assault in the area during the calendar year.
`other_burglary` Other burglary	count	Number of police-recorded offences of other burglary in the area during the calendar year.
`other_offences` Other offences	count	Number of police-recorded offences of other offences in the area during the calendar year.
`other_offences_against_a_person` Other offences against a person	count	Number of police-recorded offences of other offences against a person in the area during the calendar year.
`other_robbery` Other robbery	count	Number of police-recorded offences of other robbery in the area during the calendar year.
`property_damage` Property damage	count	Number of police-recorded offences of property damage in the area during the calendar year.
`sexual_assault` Sexual assault	count	Number of police-recorded offences of sexual assault in the area during the calendar year.
`theft_excluding_motor_vehicles` Theft (excluding motor vehicles)	count	Number of police-recorded offences of theft (excluding motor vehicles) in the area during the calendar year.