Serious crime in Oxnard dropped by 11.1 percent in 2017 from the previous year, with fewer instances of both violent and property crimes recorded, according to a new report from police.

Although major crime was up 6% throughout most of Ventura County last year, violent and property crimes in Oxnard, the county’s largest city, went mostly unchanged, officials said Wednesday.

After a decade of decline, reported crime in Oxnard inched upward for the second straight year in 2003 as homicides reached their highest level since 1979 due to a flurry of fatal attacks by youth ...