Port Lincoln crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia council area

Port Lincoln is a council area in South Australia with about 15,065 residents. It has a Crime Score 66 out of 100 (high), 96th 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 (87th percentile), break-ins (92nd percentile), robbery (85th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 72.

In 2024-25: violent 2,595 per 100,000 (+37% vs five years earlier); property 9,970 per 100,000 (+25% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,374 per 100,000 (-24% vs five years earlier); theft 4,766 per 100,000 (+59% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 8th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Port Lincoln council area is 4.6% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 9% of occupied homes (471 public and 46 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 80 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 53.4 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 9.5% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, Philippines, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4% (confidence 77 of 100); social housing about 8.2% of homes; about 52.5 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 9.6% 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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