 Rates of sexual assault (64.4 per 100,000 persons) are also below the national average (98.5 per 100,000).However the 2017 crime statistics showed a rise in some types of personal crime, notably burglaries, thefts and assaults.In February 2020, the unemployment rate in Canberra was 2.9% which was lower than the national unemployment rate of 5.1%.