Do you live in a crime hotspot?

Domestic assault is concentrated in some areas of the CBD, Kings Cross, Redfern and Waterloo. Offenders are primarily adults but the overwhelming majority of victims are women. Most incidents occur in the early morning hours on weekends.

Southern Broadway, Kings Cross and parts of Ultimo show the highest rate of non-domestic violence. Again, the weekends were a peak time for this type of crime.

Figures in robbery hotspots Kings Cross, parts of the CBD and Ultimo and the area from Central down Broadway to Parramatta Road have remained stable. The Council plan suggests that the high number of pedestrians around the shopping Centres, Sydney University and Glebe Point Road carrying cash, mobile phones and iPods are a temptation to thieves.

Areas in the inner city that only have limited security parking places are the hot spots reporting car theft. The Southern end of Glebe was the hardest hit, almost doubling from 496 cases in 2006 to 908 in 2007.

Other areas with few garages and many visitors such as Pyrmont, parts of Woolloomooloo and Sydney City also report high numbers of thefts from cars with valuables such as laptops, GPS systems, wallets, mobile phones, iPods, cash, CDs and sunglasses catching the eye of the offender.

Party precincts such as parts of the CBD, Kings Cross, Taylor Square and Oxford Street in the inner city were most prone to malicious damage.

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