Darebin crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria council area

Darebin is a council area in Victoria with about 162,496 residents. It has a Crime Score 60 out of 100 (moderate), 127th 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 robbery (91st percentile), homicide (73rd percentile), break-ins (73rd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 59.

In 2024-25: violent 919 per 100,000 (+9% vs five years earlier); property 8,246 per 100,000 (+30% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,045 per 100,000 (+56% vs five years earlier); theft 5,035 per 100,000 (+39% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 43rd of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Darebin council area is 5.3% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 4.2% of occupied homes (2,136 public and 367 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 1,026 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 68.3 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 32.8% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in Italy, Greece, China. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5.8% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 3.9% of homes; about 67.2 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 33.3% born overseas. Confidence falls with distance from the last published figure, and the map's Estimates toggle shows every year back to 1994-95.

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Suburbs in the Darebin council area

Alphington · Fairfield · La Trobe University · Northcote · Northcote South · Preston · Reservoir · Thornbury

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