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

Oberon is a council area in New South Wales with about 5,595 residents. It has a Crime Score 39 out of 100 (low), 245th 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 (94th percentile), sexual offences (83rd percentile), robbery (41st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 42.

In 2024-25: violent 1,305 per 100,000 (+29% vs five years earlier); property 1,680 per 100,000 (-43% vs five years earlier); break-ins 89 per 100,000 (-80% vs five years earlier); theft 483 per 100,000 (-55% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 62nd of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Oberon council area is 3.5% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.7% of occupied homes (21 public and 14 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 5 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. 11.8% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in England, New Zealand, India. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.4% (confidence 72 of 100); social housing about 1.6% of homes; about 8.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 12% 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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