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Luxury cars and ‘pick lists’: The burglary boom hitting Melbourne’s elite postcodes
Melbourne's upscale suburbs are experiencing a surge in aggravated burglaries, with Boroondara's rate rising nearly eightfold from 2016 to 2025. Bayside recorded the highest rate at 240.4 per 100,000 people last year, prompting calls for increased community vigilance and targeted police actions. In 2025, the overall criminal incident rate in Victoria rose by 4 percent to 473,262 cases.
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