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Crimes in Murrindindi Shire

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Jun 27, 2025

THE Crime Statistics Agency has released data detailing Victoria’s crime numbers in the year ending March 31, 2025.

Criminal incidents

For the Murrindindi local government area (LGA) there were 512 criminal incidents, down 9.9 per cent from 568 last year.

Our shire’s criminal incident rate per 100,000 population was 3262.1, well below the Victorian rate of 6692.2. Lowest in the state was Golden Plains LGA on 2377.7, with the Melbourne LGA highest on 17,792.1 per 100,000 population.

In Murrindindi, there were 60 theft-related incidents, 47 relating to criminal damage, 37 relating to breaching family violence orders (up from 23 the previous year). There were also 33 incidents relating to residential non-aggravated burglary, and 31 family violence (FV) common assault incidents.

Breaking it down further, there were two homicide and related offences in the Murrindindi Shire. Thirteen FV serious assault-related incidents were recorded, 14 non-FV serious assault, six cases of assaulting police, emergency services or other authorised officers, 31 cases of FV common assault and 17 cases of non-FV common assault.

Sixteen sexual offence incidents were recorded for the year and one case of..

Alexandra

Alexandra was the second-highest town in Murrindindi for criminal incidents, with a total of 82, down from 87 the previous year.
The highest number of incidents in Alexandra were related to..

Eildon

Eildon had 55 criminal incidents in the year ending March 31, 2025, up from..

Flowerdale

Flowerdale is down one criminal incident from the previous year to 27 incidents. Of these, family violence..

Yea

Yea had the highest number of criminal incidents in Murrindindi Shire with 89. This is significantly down from ….

Family violence

The total number of family incidents in Murrindindi Shire rose in the year ending March 2025, standing at 208 incidents. This is up 14.3 per cent from the previous year, when that number was 182.

This equals out to 1325.2 per 100,000 population, still below the Victorian rate of 1497.1 per 100,000 population.
In terms of affected family members, 152 were…

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