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

Camden is a council area in New South Wales with about 146,483 residents. It has a Crime Score 20 out of 100 (low), 334th 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 homicide (35th percentile), robbery (40th percentile), sexual offences (29th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 24.

In 2024-25: violent 731 per 100,000 (+16% vs five years earlier); property 1,413 per 100,000 (-13% vs five years earlier); break-ins 126 per 100,000 (-6% vs five years earlier); theft 449 per 100,000 (-31% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 109th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Camden council area is 3.5% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.4% of occupied homes (374 public and 133 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 125 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 9.8 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 23.6% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in India, England, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.4% (confidence 84 of 100); social housing about 1.2% of homes; about 9.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 24% 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 Camden council area

Austral · Bringelly · Catherine Field · Currans Hill · Gledswood Hills · Gregory Hills · Harrington Park · Leppington · Mount Annan · Narellan · Narellan Vale · Rossmore · Smeaton Grange

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