Wyndham Vale recorded the most murders in Victoria over the past year, more bikes than cars were stolen in Fitzroy and Lorne saw a sixfold increase in rape.

Kew recorded an eightfold increase in fraud during the year from April 2015 to March 2016, Frankston had the most sexual offences against children, while Broadmeadows accounted for almost half of all deliberately lit bushfires in Victoria.

And Kalorama, just north of Mount Dandenong, earned the mantle of Melbourne's safest suburb, with just 10 offences over the past year.

Today, Fairfax Media launches an interactive crime map that provides the most comprehensive information on criminal offending in every Victorian postcode over the past five years.