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

Hay is a council area in New South Wales with about 2,899 residents. It has a Crime Score 51 out of 100 (moderate), 172nd 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 (69th percentile), sexual offences (65th percentile), break-ins (61st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 73.

In 2024-25: violent 1,414 per 100,000 (-39% vs five years earlier); property 2,553 per 100,000 (-47% vs five years earlier); break-ins 207 per 100,000 (-75% vs five years earlier); theft 1,104 per 100,000 (-24% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 55th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Hay council area is 3.8% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.1% of occupied homes (30 public and 5 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 6 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 21.1 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 7.8% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in India, New Zealand, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.9% (confidence 69 of 100); social housing about 2.8% of homes; about 20.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 7.9% 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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