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

Lockhart is a council area in New South Wales with about 3,509 residents. It has a Crime Score 31 out of 100 (low), 287th 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 robbery (50th percentile), sexual offences (33rd percentile), break-ins (27th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 36.

In 2024-25: violent 541 per 100,000 (-50% vs five years earlier); property 2,223 per 100,000 (+11% vs five years earlier); break-ins 142 per 100,000 (-76% vs five years earlier); theft 855 per 100,000 (+18% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 119th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Lockhart council area is 2.9% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.1% of occupied homes (3 public and 10 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 3 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 8.9 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 5.1% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in England, New Zealand, Scotland. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 2.9% (confidence 69 of 100); social housing about 1% of homes; about 8.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 5.2% 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 Lockhart council area

Brookdale · Brookong · Fargunyah · French Park · Lockhart · Milbrulong · Osborne · The Rock · Tootool · Urangeline · Urangeline East

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