There is approximately one unique alleged offender for every 78 Victorians - that is 84,989 across the state.
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The alarming new crime statistics, released by the Crime Statistics Agency on Thursday, is the highest it has been since the CSA data holdings began in 2004 and paints a dark picture of the state's crime.
But closer to home, despite some offences seeing large increases, the overall statistics remain on par with 2018.
The Wangaratta police district saw a 74 per cent increase of burglary and break and enter offences.
There was also a 24 per cent increase in theft offences in the year ending June 2019.
Drug offences also increased by 10 per cent but overall Wangaratta crime is three per cent less then the same time last year with sexual offences seeing the biggest drop of 25 per cent.
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Further north in the Wodonga police district crime is relatively steady - only seeing a 3.1 per cent increase.
Sexual offences increased by just six, or 5.5 percent, and there was 14.1 per cent more thefts, equating to 94 more offences.
Drug offences also rose by 3.2 per cent.
Burglary and break and enter offences rose by 23.8 per cent while property damage and deception offences only rose by single digits.
Across the state alleged offender incidents increased by 4.6 per cent (7781 incidents) to 176,837, victim reports increased by 0.6 per cent to 301,099 and family related incidents increased 8.6 per cent to 82,652 incidents.
Crime Statistics Agency chief statistician Fiona Dowsley said across the state the unique alleged offender rate isn't the only thing rising.
"We are seeing record numbers of alleged offenders being processed by Victoria Police but also the average age of these alleged offenders has been increasing," she said.
The largest increase for Indigo Shire was 93.5 per cent increase in burglaries, followed by the 32.9 per cent jump in theft offences.
Wodonga and Wangaratta police were contacted for comment but the superintendents were unavailable for comment at both stations.