The findings are contained in the NSW Recorded Crime Statistics Quarterly Update June 2014, released by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) last week.

The shire has also fallen victim to increases in stealing and malicious damage incidents compared to the same time last year.

In the ratio to NSW rate of recorded criminal incidents for major offences over 12 months, the Narromine Shire is double the ratio in more than half of the 18 categories.

In incidents of assault domestic violence related, assault non-domestic violence related, break and enter-dwelling, steal from motor vehicle and malicious damage, the shire is twice the state average.

The quarterly survey measures reported crime per 100,000 population, which police from Orana Local Area Command have previously argued makes the figures appear more alarming for small communities.

In regional NSW most areas showed stable or falling crime rates but the Far West and Orana regions showed a 24.5 per cent increase in sexual assaults and a 30.3 per cent increase in steal from a retail store.

Theft from motor vehicles and retail stores are reported at Dubbo at a rate three times the NSW average and sexual assault reports have climbed by more than 45 per cent in a 12-month period.