Warrnambool crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria council area

Warrnambool is a council area in Victoria with about 36,255 residents. It has a Crime Score 48 out of 100 (moderate), 180th 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 (52nd percentile), sexual offences (76th percentile), theft (70th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 66.

In 2024-25: violent 1,420 per 100,000 (+10% vs five years earlier); property 4,353 per 100,000 (+12% vs five years earlier); break-ins 414 per 100,000 (-24% vs five years earlier); theft 2,510 per 100,000 (+50% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 20th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Warrnambool council area is 3.1% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 5% of occupied homes (567 public and 127 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 185 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 52.2 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 10.2% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, China. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.4% (confidence 81 of 100); social housing about 4.6% of homes; about 51.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 10.3% 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 Warrnambool council area

Dennington · Warrnambool

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