Armidale crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales council area

Armidale is a council area in New South Wales with about 29,652 residents. It has a Crime Score 70 out of 100 (high), 61st of 362 councils nationally.

The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by assault (75th percentile), break-ins (87th percentile), sexual offences (84th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 71.

In 2024-25: violent 1,980 per 100,000 (+30% vs five years earlier); property 5,420 per 100,000 (-7% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,231 per 100,000 (+3% vs five years earlier); theft 2,098 per 100,000 (-1% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 29th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Armidale council area is 5.3% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 5% of occupied homes (324 public and 205 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 152 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 51.6 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 16.5% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in Iraq, England, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5.2% (confidence 80 of 100); social housing about 4.5% of homes; about 50.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 16.8% born overseas. Confidence falls with distance from the last published figure, and the map's Estimates toggle shows every year back to 1994-95.

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