Holdfast Bay crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia council area

Holdfast Bay is a council area in South Australia with about 39,683 residents. It has a Crime Score 43 out of 100 (moderate), 220th 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 (53rd percentile), theft (84th percentile), robbery (66th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 48.

In 2024-25: violent 1,016 per 100,000 (+52% vs five years earlier); property 4,012 per 100,000 (-16% vs five years earlier); break-ins 481 per 100,000 (-29% vs five years earlier); theft 2,447 per 100,000 (-10% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 26th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Holdfast Bay council area is 3.8% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.8% of occupied homes (211 public and 233 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 57 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 14.9 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 24.4% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, India, Scotland. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.4% (confidence 82 of 100); social housing about 2.5% of homes; about 14.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 24.8% 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 Holdfast Bay council area

Brighton · Glenelg · Glenelg East · Glenelg North · Glenelg South · Hove · Kingston Park · North Brighton · Seacliff · Somerton Park · South Brighton

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