Victoria · property crime at a glance · year ending 30 June 2025
Top LGAs in Victoria · residential aggravated burglary per 100,000 people
Victoria by region · where the volume sits, and where it's moving
Residential burglary, year ending 30 June 2025. Regional aggregates compiled from CSA Victoria LGA-level data.
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The same Crime Watch data lives in our native iOS app, on TestFlight now with App Store submission pending. There you also see a live "your home is watched" status, a protected-night streak, a live neighbourhood radar and a quiet night-watch mode.
Why we publish this
Honesty is the first deterrent.
Most security companies sell on hidden fear: vague statistics, dramatic music, "you could be next." We publish the actual data, sourced, dated and verifiable. Because if you're considering a monthly membership to protect your home, you deserve to see the same numbers we use to plan patrol routes.
We publish statewide, not just the postcodes we patrol, because the pattern matters. A burglary in Geelong, an aggravated home invasion in Frankston, a scout reconnaissance in Ballarat: these are the same offender behaviours we plan our routes against in Hawthorn, Armadale and Kew. Showing only the suburbs we cover would be marketing. Showing all of Victoria is operational truth.
If the data ever softens, and we genuinely hope it does, this page will show it. We won't curate. We won't cherry-pick the bad weeks. The Crime Watch is operational truth, not marketing.
Methodology
How this feed is actually built.
"Curated" is a word that gets misused. Here's exactly what it means on this page.
What gets in.
Only incidents published in a Victoria Police media release, or referenced by a Vic Police media advisory carried by Mirage News or AAP. Each entry must name a street, an approximate time, and an offence category that matches CSA Victoria's residential property crime taxonomy. Geographic scope is statewide: every Victorian LGA from Mildura to Melbourne to the Mornington Peninsula.
What gets excluded.
Social media posts, Facebook group hearsay, unverified WhatsApp screenshots, and neighbourhood-watch rumours. We also exclude commercial burglaries, this feed is residential only, and any incident a Vic Police release later retracts or amends.
Cross-referencing.
Every incident is checked against the CSA Victoria quarterly data release for offence category and postcode match. Where a Vic Police release and CSA data disagree on classification, we publish both. We do not re-classify offences ourselves: we are not a statistical authority.
Refresh cadence.
Reviewed weekly by our team. The previous seven days of Vic Police releases are read end-to-end across every region of the state, candidates compared against CSA data, and the feed updated as a single weekly commit. The "Live · Vic Police feed" ticker shows what's been verified in that review: it is not an automated wire scrape.
Why statewide, not just our pilot postcodes.
A Vigil Guard membership is sold in Melbourne today, but the offender behaviour we plan against is statewide. The same crews work Stonnington, Casey and Greater Geelong on consecutive nights. Publishing only the suburbs we patrol would distort the picture. We show all of Victoria: the LGAs we cover, the ones we plan to cover, and the ones we don't.
What "curated" means here.
A human reviewer on our team reads the police release, summarises in plain language, and links the source. There is no LLM-generated content on this feed. There is no automated "AI summary" anywhere on this page. The feed is slower and shorter than an automated scrape would be: that is the point.
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Where Vigil Guard is open, and where it's coming.
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Data sources
Where every number on this page comes from.
Crime Statistics Agency Victoria
The independent statutory body that publishes Victoria's official crime data, quarterly. Source of "30,545 residential burglaries", the +13.9% YoY figure, the ~18% clearance rate, and every LGA-level per-100,000 rate and regional aggregate on this page. We use the year ending 30 June 2025 release.
crimestatistics.vic.gov.au ↗Victoria Police media releases & operational intelligence
The primary source for every individual incident on this feed. Each entry in the "Verified incidents" panel links directly to its Vic Police release. Vic Police operational intelligence is also the source of the "02:00–05:00 peak window" figure for aggravated home invasions. We summarise: we do not paraphrase or interpret.
police.vic.gov.au/news ↗Crime Stoppers Victoria
Source of the +26.8% YoY aggravated burglary figure and the "60%+ youth offender" statistic, drawn from their annual residential crime advisory.
crimestoppersvic.com.au ↗Mirage News (Vic Police wire carrier)
A news wire that re-publishes Vic Police media advisories verbatim. Used where the original Vic Police page has been archived or rotated off. Every Mirage citation on this feed traces back to a Vic Police release.
miragenews.com ↗Vigil Guard Lookout queue (validated)
Member-submitted Lookout flags that have been independently validated by our team and corroborated by at least two unrelated members or a Vic Police entry. Unvalidated flags never appear on this feed. Lookout also lets members vouch for real residents on their street, building a verified constellation of trusted neighbours that makes the network harder to spoof.
Internal · curated