Adelaide crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia council area

Adelaide is a council area in South Australia with about 30,173 residents. It has a Crime Score 81 out of 100 (very high), 22nd 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 (94th percentile), break-ins (92nd percentile), robbery (99th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 81.

In 2024-25: violent 7,381 per 100,000 (+41% vs five years earlier); property 22,692 per 100,000 (-2% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,664 per 100,000 (-24% vs five years earlier); theft 15,325 per 100,000 (+4% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 5th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Adelaide council area is 9.3% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 7% of occupied homes (370 public and 403 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 395 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 150.1 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 48.9% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in China, England, India. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 8.2% (confidence 80 of 100); social housing about 6.3% of homes; about 147.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 49.6% 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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