The chart below shows the changes that took place in three different areas of crime in New Port city center from 2003-2012. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart below shows the changes that took place in three different areas of crime in New Port city center from 2003-2012.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The given line graph illustrates the number of incidents in 3 categories of crime in New Port city centre between 2003 and 2012.
Overall
, trends for car theft and robbery are similar, they both fluctuated throughout the period.
However
, theft of cars happens more about 3 times.
In contrast
, burglary had experienced a significant decrease.
It is clear that
the figure for robbing a person in 2003 was just over 500, but car theft was three times as many as the former. Each of them stayed at the same level from the beginning of the period until 2005. Afterwards, they fluctuated during the next 7 years. Eventually, they both reached almost the same numbers as in the first year, respectively.
Furthermore
, burglary was the most popular type of crime and it hit a peak of just above 3500 until 2006 when it went down sharply.
This
was followed by small fluctuations until 2012, after which it levelled off at approximately 1400.
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Vocabulary: The word "fluctuated" was used 3 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • instances of crime
  • significant decline
  • noticeable change
  • fluctuating trend
  • relatively stable
  • minor fluctuations
  • dramatic reduction
  • converged towards
  • crime rate
  • time frame
  • notable trajectory
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