Knox crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria council area

Knox is a council area in Victoria with about 163,820 residents. It has a Crime Score 47 out of 100 (moderate), 188th 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 sexual offences (63rd percentile), robbery (74th percentile), theft (73rd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 52.

In 2024-25: violent 1,000 per 100,000 (+22% vs five years earlier); property 4,108 per 100,000 (-6% vs five years earlier); break-ins 508 per 100,000 (-14% vs five years earlier); theft 2,420 per 100,000 (-2% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 39th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Knox council area is 4.4% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2% of occupied homes (925 public and 249 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 431 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 27 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 34.1% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in China, India, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.9% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 1.9% of homes; about 26.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 34.6% 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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Suburbs in the Knox council area

Bayswater · Bayswater North · Boronia · Knox City Centre · Knoxfield · Rowville · Scoresby · Studfield · The Basin · Wantirna · Wantirna South

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