The most stolen cars in each suburb of Victoria revealed by this tool

A new crime statistics tool shows the most commonly stolen vehicles in every part of Victoria based on 2025 data.

But a mismatch between police intelligence figures and official crime statistics means the picture is incomplete.

This tool, created by Drive, gives only an indication of the most stolen cars in each area of Victoria, and the totals provided should be considered an underestimation.

The data has some limitations, as it only includes around 17,500 of the approximately 27,500 cars stolen in Victoria in 2025.

Click or tap between the suburb, postcode, and council (LGA) tabs to search for the most stolen vehicles of any area in Victoria during 2025. You can also select the 'my vehicle' tab to search for a specific model of car to see where it ranks for theft rates in Victoria.

The dataset that this tool is built from was provided to Drive by Victoria's Crime Statistics Agency and contains data for 17,742 stolen vehicles, including details on the vehicles' make, model, body type, and year of manufacture. 

All recorded motor vehicle theft offences in Victoria in 2025 total 32,013. However, this figure combines both actual motor vehicle thefts in Victoria (27,644) and attempted thefts (4,369).

Victoria’s Crime Statistics Agency (CSA) told Drive that vehicles excluded from the dataset used in the tool above are primarily instances where the vehicle's make and model, or other details such as year of manufacture, have not been recorded.

The map below includes the full count of motor vehicle offences for each Local Government Area (LGA) in Victoria. Zoom into the map and tap each LGA to see more information.

There are other errors in Victoria's stolen vehicle data, such as the inclusion of vehicle models that do not exist. Namely, the 252 stolen Toyota Lantras, a vehicle never made or sold by Toyota. This is an issue Drive has raised with Victoria Police previously, but remains present in the data.

Accurate counts of how many of each vehicle type have been stolen is further confused by differences in the totals recorded by the CSA and those calculated by Victoria Police intelligence.

Vehicle theft has been continuously rising in Victoria over the past few years, now double that of New South Wales. Police have attributed the sharp increase to the use of technologies such as key cloning devices, which can aid thieves in stealing some vehicle types.

Key reprogramming devices, also sometimes referred to as ‘OBD’ devices, plug into a vehicle’s on-board diagnostics (OBD) port, which modern cars usually feature for the purpose of fault diagnosis.

Plugging the device into this diagnostic port allows thieves to overwrite the vehicle's security by using functions intended for mechanics and locksmiths, such as programming new keys.

Vehicles with push-button start functions are considered the most vulnerable to technology-enabled theft, with recent Toyota, Holden Commodore, and Subaru Impreza models considered by police as particularly prone to this type of theft.

The figures in the table below were sourced from Victoria Police intelligence released last month, detailing the number of specific models they believe have been stolen with technological devices such as OBD tools. These are not reflective of the total stolen vehicle counts for these vehicles.

The data in the table above contains variations between police intelligence estimates and official CSA crime statistics, with police intelligence estimating 445 Subaru Impreza were stolen in 2025, just using technological devices.

Yet CSA data only records 272 Subaru Impreza as being stolen in total in 2025.

Neither the CSA nor Victoria Police provided answers to specific questions regarding how the count of 445 stolen Subaru Imprezas was reached.

However, Victoria Police told Drive that Victoria Police intelligence is not to be considered formal crime data, and will always differ from CSA data.

Drive understands that the CSA is aware of the method Victoria Police intelligence is using to reach its conclusions, and has no issues with its approach.

It is unclear what source data Victoria Police used to calculate these totals, and Victoria Police declined to share with Drive any further police intelligence figures or raw data.

Vehicles are considered by police intelligence to have been potentially stolen using a 'technological' device, such as an OBD, tool if the vehicles are stolen from residential streets or locations where no coinciding offence occurs such as a home burglary, robbery, or carjacking.

Older cars without push-button start (keyless) ignition are also excluded from the police intelligence calculations.

This indicates police intelligence is not using CSA data, as only 632 (50.4 per cent) of Commodores in the CSA's 2025 stolen vehicle data were models manufactured from 2013 onwards.

Police intelligence figures included in a media release last year estimated 1271 cases of Holden Commodores being stolen in situations that indicated technological involvement.

Max is the News Publishing Coordinator for Drive. He enjoys creating engaging digital content, including videos, podcasts, interactive maps, and graphs. Prior to Drive, he studied at Monash University and gained experience working for various publications. He grew up playing Burnout 3: Takedown on the PS2 and was disappointed when real life car races didn’t have the same physics.

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