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

Blayney is a council area in New South Wales with about 7,831 residents. It has a Crime Score 36 out of 100 (low), 264th 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 (38th percentile), robbery (64th percentile), sexual offences (51st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 40.

In 2024-25: violent 1,073 per 100,000 (+75% vs five years earlier); property 1,686 per 100,000 (-46% vs five years earlier); break-ins 204 per 100,000 (-70% vs five years earlier); theft 447 per 100,000 (-52% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 80th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Blayney council area is 4.3% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.6% of occupied homes (49 public and 24 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 6 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 7.9 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 6.7% 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 4.2% (confidence 74 of 100); social housing about 2.4% of homes; about 7.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 6.8% 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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Suburbs in the Blayney council area

Barry · Blayney · Browns Creek · Burnt Yards · Carcoar · Errowanbang · Fitzgeralds Mount · Forest Reefs · Garland · Guyong · Kings Plains · Lyndhurst · Mandurama · Millthorpe · Neville · Spring Terrace · Tallwood · Vittoria

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