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

Wagga Wagga is a council area in New South Wales with about 69,108 residents. It has a Crime Score 70 out of 100 (high), 65th 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 (73rd percentile), robbery (86th percentile), sexual offences (70th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 75.

In 2024-25: violent 1,845 per 100,000 (+8% vs five years earlier); property 4,230 per 100,000 (-34% vs five years earlier); break-ins 548 per 100,000 (-44% vs five years earlier); theft 1,825 per 100,000 (-33% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 38th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Wagga Wagga council area is 4% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 4.4% of occupied homes (889 public and 190 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 258 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 37.6 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 12% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in India, Iraq, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.9% (confidence 83 of 100); social housing about 3.9% of homes; about 37 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 12.2% 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 Wagga Wagga council area

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