Alexandrina crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia council area

Alexandrina is a council area in South Australia with about 31,427 residents. It has a Crime Score 22 out of 100 (low), 324th 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 (44th percentile), break-ins (29th percentile), assault (19th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 32.

In 2024-25: violent 496 per 100,000 (+9% vs five years earlier); property 1,438 per 100,000 (-39% vs five years earlier); break-ins 328 per 100,000 (-54% vs five years earlier); theft 522 per 100,000 (-36% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 52nd of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Alexandrina council area is 4.5% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2% of occupied homes (110 public and 124 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 63 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 21.2 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 17.2% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, New Zealand, Scotland. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.9% (confidence 80 of 100); social housing about 1.8% of homes; about 20.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 17.5% 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 Alexandrina council area

ALEXANDRINA · Angas Plains · Ashbourne · BELVIDERE · Blackfellows Creek · BLETCHLEY · BREMER · Clayton Bay · Currency Creek · DINGABLEDINGA · FINNISS · Gemmells · Goolwa · Goolwa Beach · Goolwa North · Goolwa South · Hartley · Highland Valley · Hindmarsh Island · Hope Forest · KONDOPARINGA · Kuitpo · Kuitpo Colony · Kyeema · LAKE PLAINS · Langhorne Creek · McHarg Creek · Middleton · Milang · Montarra · Mosquito Hill · Mount Compass · Mount Magnificent · Mount Observation · Mundoo Island · Nangkita · Nurragi · Pages Flat · Paris Creek · Point Sturt · Port Elliot · RED CREEK · Salem · Sandergrove · STRATHALBYN · Tolderol · TOOPERANG · Willunga Hill · Willyaroo · WOODCHESTER · YUNDI

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