The Hills crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales council area

The Hills is a council area in New South Wales with about 222,675 residents. It has a Crime Score 15 out of 100 (very low), 349th 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 (36th percentile), robbery (39th percentile), sexual offences (20th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 18.

In 2024-25: violent 372 per 100,000 (-10% vs five years earlier); property 1,243 per 100,000 (-36% vs five years earlier); break-ins 128 per 100,000 (-55% vs five years earlier); theft 505 per 100,000 (-35% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 127th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the The Hills council area is 4.1% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 0.4% of occupied homes (157 public and 108 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 195 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. 41.2% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in India, China, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 0.4% of homes; about 9.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 41.9% 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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Suburbs in the The Hills council area

Annangrove · Baulkham Hills · Beaumont Hills · Bella Vista · Castle Hill · Glenhaven · Kellyville · Kellyville Ridge · Kenthurst · Rouse Hill · West Pennant Hills · Winston Hills

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