Bega Valley crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales council area

Bega Valley is a council area in New South Wales with about 36,921 residents. It has a Crime Score 26 out of 100 (low), 311th 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 sexual offences (56th percentile), assault (24th percentile), homicide (18th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 37.

In 2024-25: violent 840 per 100,000 (+8% vs five years earlier); property 2,126 per 100,000 (-9% vs five years earlier); break-ins 255 per 100,000 (-36% vs five years earlier); theft 726 per 100,000 (-20% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 102nd of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Bega Valley council area is 3.5% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.5% of occupied homes (275 public and 95 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 154 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 42.7 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 13.1% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in England, New Zealand, Germany. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.5% (confidence 81 of 100); social housing about 2.3% of homes; about 42 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 13.3% 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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Suburbs in the Bega Valley council area

Bald Hills · Bega Valley · Berrambool · Bournda · Boydtown · Broadwater · Greigs Flat · Kiah · Lochiel · Merimbula · Millingandi · Mirador · Nadgee · Narrabarba · Nethercote · Nullica · Nungatta · Nungatta South · Pambula · Pambula Beach · South Pambula · Timbillica · Tura Beach · Wonboyn · Wonboyn North · Yellow Pinch

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