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

Cobar is a council area in New South Wales with about 4,019 residents. It has a Crime Score 66 out of 100 (high), 97th 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 (77th percentile), sexual offences (83rd percentile), break-ins (73rd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 66.

In 2024-25: violent 2,588 per 100,000 (+65% vs five years earlier); property 4,902 per 100,000 (-12% vs five years earlier); break-ins 672 per 100,000 (-26% vs five years earlier); theft 1,543 per 100,000 (-10% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 12th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Cobar council area is 3.2% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 6.5% of occupied homes (65 public and 27 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 4 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. 8.7% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in New Zealand, England, Philippines. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.1% (confidence 70 of 100); social housing about 5.9% of homes; about 9.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 8.9% 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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