Police also recorded 34 offences against those who failed to comply with self-isolation and quarantine orders.
The new data shows a total of 551,710 offences were recorded during the 12-month period, with the number of crimes recorded increasing by 23,229 (or 4.4 per cent).
Lockdown breaches were the fifth most common crime recorded statewide, making up 6 per cent of all offences over the past 12 months.
Other common crimes included stealing from a motor vehicle (56,849 offences), breaching a family violence order (50,462), other theft (46,209) and criminal damage (35,966).
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Family violence-related crimes increased by 7.5 per cent with more than 90,000 offences recorded.
The highest number of crimes recorded were in the local government areas of Melbourne, Latrobe, Yarra, Greater Shepparton and Horsham. And while three of the top five actually recorded small declines in the number of offences committed in their neighbourhoods, Yarra’s crime rate per 100,000 residents rose 5.1 per cent and Horsham’s surged 23.2 per cent.
The Crime Statistics Agency said the data also showed “significant upward trends” in crimes including drug offences and the breaching of court orders, which includes intervention order breaches.
It comes just weeks after Mernda woman Celeste Manno, 23, was allegedly murdered in her home by a man who was subject to an interim intervention order.
The agency said the largest decreases were in areas including arson and disorderly or offensive conduct, with the state in lockdown during half the 12-month period due to COVID-19.
