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The age and sex breakdowns of victims of crime in Tasmania for 2002 show that 58.0% of assault victims and 59.5% of individual robbery victims were male, while 84.3% of sexual assault victims were female.

In 2002, all three Regions recorded proportions of male victims of assault similar to the Tasmanian proportion, with the Greater Hobart-Southern recording 58.6%, the Northern Region 58.1% and Mersey-Lyell 58.1%.The Mersey-Lyell Region recorded the highest proportion of individual robbery victims who were male, recording 75.0%, compared to 62.5% in the Northern Region and 54.1% in the Greater Hobart-Southern Region. The Greater Hobart-Southern Region recorded the highest proportion of sexual assault victims who were female, with 89.0%, compared to 84.3% in Mersey-Lyell and 79.7% in the Northern Region.

For all three Regions the numbers of both male and female victims of assault were highest in the 25-34 years age group. Female victims of sexual assault were most numerous in the 20-24 years age group in the Greater Hobart-Southern Region, compared to the 15-19 years age group in the Northern and Mersey-Lyell Regions.

VICTIMS OF SELECTED OFFENCES, By sex and age: Tasmanian regions - 2002
		Assault			Sexual assault			Robbery
Age (years)		Males	Females	Persons	Males	Females	Persons	Males	Females	Persons
Greater Hobart-Southern
	0-9	13	15	29	5	14	19	-	-	-
	10-14	45	25	70	1	16	17	4	1	5
	15-19	123	95	218	-	14	14	12	4	16
	20-24	142	119	262	-	18	18	3	5	8
	25-34	250	167	418	1	11	12	6	9	15
	35-44	140	117	257	2	8	10	2	3	5
	45-54	75	37	113	-	1	1	8	2	10
	55-64	27	20	47	-	4	4	3	3	6
	65 and over	11	7	18	-	-	-	1	6	7
	Not specified	152	35	237	1	3	5	1	-	1
	Total	978	637	1,669(a)	10	89	100(a)	40	33	73(a)
Northern
	0-9	4	8	12	4	8	12	-	-	-
	10-14	24	25	49	3	10	13	2	-	2
	15-19	81	69	151	2	17	20	4	2	6
	20-24	103	61	164	1	5	6	2	2	4
	25-34	159	106	268	3	5	8	5	1	6
	35-44	82	84	166	-	6	6	2	2	4
	45-54	57	27	84	-	2	2	2	4	6
	55-64	19	14	33	-	-	-	1	1	2
	65 and over	6	1	7	-	-	-	1	-	1
	Not specified	127	40	223	-	2	2	1	-	1
	Total	662	435	1,157(a)	13	55	69(a)	20	12	32(a)
Mersey-Lyell
	0-9	7	5	12	4	11	15	-	-	-
	10-14	23	24	47	2	10	12	1	-	1
	15-19	73	48	121	1	13	14	2	-	2
	20-24	50	59	110	4	10	14	1	-	1
	25-34	105	70	175	1	12	13	1	2	3
	35-44	72	43	115	1	4	5	2	1	3
	45-54	34	20	54	-	-	-	2	-	2
	55-64	10	6	16	-	-	-	1	-	1
	65 and over	5	-	5	-	-	-	-	1	1
	Not specified	92	27	156	-	-	-	2	-	2
	Total	471	302	811(a)	13	60	73(a)	12	4	16(a)
Tasmania
	0-9	24	28	53	13	33	46	-	-	-
	10-14	92	74	166	6	36	42	7	1	8
	15-19	277	212	490	3	44	48	18	6	24
	20-24	295	239	536	5	33	38	6	7	13
	25-34	514	343	861	5	28	33	12	12	24
	35-44	294	244	538	3	18	21	6	6	12
	45-54	166	84	251	-	3	3	12	6	18
	55-64	56	40	96	-	4	4	5	4	9
	65 and over	22	8	30	-	-	-	2	7	9
	Not specified	371	102	616	1	5	7	4	-	4
	Total	2,111	1,374	3,637(a)	36	204	242(a)	72	49	121(a)
- nil or rounded to zero (a) Totals include victims whose age and sex were not specified. Consequently there may be minor discrepancies between individual components and totals. Source: Department of Police and Public Safety, extracted from the Crime Analysis System on 3 April 2003.