Broken Hill crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales council area

Broken Hill is a council area in New South Wales with about 17,515 residents. It has a Crime Score 79 out of 100 (high), 32nd 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 (88th percentile), sexual offences (84th percentile), break-ins (83rd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 72.

In 2024-25: violent 2,803 per 100,000 (+11% vs five years earlier); property 5,047 per 100,000 (-22% vs five years earlier); break-ins 896 per 100,000 (-44% vs five years earlier); theft 2,135 per 100,000 (-14% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 9th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Broken Hill council area is 5.5% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.6% of occupied homes (116 public and 72 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 33 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 18.7 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 5.6% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in Philippines, England, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5.4% (confidence 77 of 100); social housing about 2.3% of homes; about 18.4 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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