Maralinga Tjarutja crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia council area

Maralinga Tjarutja is a council area in South Australia with about 102 residents. It has a Crime Score 34 out of 100 (low), 277th 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 (90th percentile), break-ins (81st percentile), homicide (18th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 40.

In 2024-25: violent 5,882 per 100,000 (+447% vs five years earlier); property 1,961 per 100,000 (-33% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,961 per 100,000 (0% vs five years earlier); theft 0 per 100,000 (-100% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 6th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Maralinga Tjarutja council area is 0% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 57.1% of occupied homes (0 public and 16 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 10 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 980.4 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 5.2% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%). Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 0% (confidence 65 of 100); social housing about 52% of homes; about 963.9 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 5.3% born overseas. Confidence falls with distance from the last published figure, and the map's Estimates toggle shows every year back to 1994-95.

OffencesPer 100,000Count5-yr change
Violent5,8826+447%
Property1,9612-33%
Break-ins1,96120%
Theft00-100%

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