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

Bourke is a council area in New South Wales with about 2,310 residents. It has a Crime Score 97 out of 100 (very high), 1st 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 (95th percentile), break-ins (100th percentile), sexual offences (99th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 87.

In 2024-25: violent 9,567 per 100,000 (+17% vs five years earlier); property 16,537 per 100,000 (-11% vs five years earlier); break-ins 5,844 per 100,000 (+81% vs five years earlier); theft 4,675 per 100,000 (-27% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 1st of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Bourke council area is 2.7% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 10.9% of occupied homes (48 public and 36 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 4 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 17 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 5.7% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in India, Nepal, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 2.6% (confidence 68 of 100); social housing about 9.8% of homes; about 16.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 5.7% 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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