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title: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) open data
resource: https://publicdata.au/nsw/bocsar/
jurisdiction: New South Wales
catalogue_read: 2026-09-28
not_endorsed: true
---

# NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) open data

NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research lists 16 datasets on data.gov.au and data.nsw.gov.au. 4 of them have an open licence and a file or API we can read. 1 table from its releases is served here in every format with version history.

## Served here

- [Recorded criminal incidents by council area and month, NSW](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-recorded-crime-by-lga/): Criminal incidents recorded by NSW Police in each council area, month by month since January 1995, for 21 offence categories and their subcategories.

## On the portals

- [Alcohol Related Violence](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/alcohol-related-violence) (HTML; CC-BY; updated 2026-04-28)
- [BOCSAR Crime Mapping tool](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/bocsar-crime-mapping-tool) (WEBSITE LINK; CC-BY; updated 2026-04-28)
- [Crime statistics by LGA](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/crime-statistics-by-lga) (HTML; CC-BY; updated 2026-04-28)
- [Drug offences](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/drug-offences-statistics) (HTML; CC-BY; updated 2026-04-28)
- [Local Area Rankings](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/recorded-crime-incident-local-government-area-ranking-dataset) (HTML; none stated; updated 2026-04-28)
- [Long term trends in crime in NSW](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/recorded-crime-long-term-trends-in-nsw) (XLSX; none stated; updated 2026-04-28)
- [NSW Courts and Sentencing data](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-criminal-court-statistics) (HTML; CC-BY; updated 2026-04-28)
- [NSW Crime and policing statistics](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-crime-and-policing-statistics) (HTML, XLSX, ZIP; CC-BY; updated 2026-04-28)
- [Offences involving weapons](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/offences-involving-weapons-statistics) (HTML; CC-BY; updated 2026-04-28)
- [Re-offending statistics for NSW](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/re-offending-statistics-for-nsw) (HTML; CC-BY; updated 2026-04-28)
- [Recorded Criminal Incidents by month – by suburb](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/crime-by-offence-by-nsw-suburb) (ZIP; CC-BY; updated 2026-04-28)
- [BOCSAR Domestic Violence Incidents by Location (LGA) 2017-2018](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-govt-bocsar-bocsar-domestic-violence-lga-2017-18-lga2018) (HTML; CC-BY-4.0; updated 2025-07-31)
- [BOCSAR Non-domestic Assaults and Robberies Sydney LGA (Point) 2013-2016](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-govt-bocsar-non-domestic-assaults-robberies-sydney-lga-2013-2016-na) (HTML; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2025-07-31)
- [NSW Crime data](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-crime-data) (CSV, XLS, ZIP; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2023-08-11)
- [NSW Custody Statistics](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-custody-statistics) (XLS; none stated; updated 2019-04-10)
- [Domestic Violence Statistics for NSW](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/domestic-violence-statistics-for-nsw) (XLS; CC-BY; updated 2019-04-09)

Full list: https://publicdata.au/nsw/bocsar/catalogue.json