Yarra Ranges crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria council area

Yarra Ranges is a council area in Victoria with about 160,906 residents. It has a Crime Score 35 out of 100 (low), 272nd 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 homicide (69th percentile), robbery (59th percentile), sexual offences (47th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 40.

In 2024-25: violent 766 per 100,000 (+9% vs five years earlier); property 2,582 per 100,000 (-14% vs five years earlier); break-ins 333 per 100,000 (-15% vs five years earlier); theft 1,260 per 100,000 (-9% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 54th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Yarra Ranges council area is 3.5% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1% of occupied homes (424 public and 146 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 418 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 26.6 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 17.5% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, Netherlands. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.9% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 0.9% of homes; about 26.1 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 17.8% 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 Yarra Ranges council area

Badger Creek · Beenak · Belgrave · Belgrave Heights · Belgrave South · Big Pats Creek · Cambarville · Castella · Chirnside Park · Christmas Hills · Chum Creek · Coldstream · Dixons Creek · Don Valley · East Warburton · Ferntree Gully · Ferny Creek · Gilderoy · Gladysdale · Gruyere · Healesville · Hoddles Creek · Kallista · Kalorama · Kilsyth · Kilsyth South · Launching Place · Lilydale · Lysterfield · Lysterfield South · Marysville · Mcmahons Creek · Menzies Creek · Millgrove · Monbulk · Montrose · Mooroolbark · Mount Dandenong · Mount Evelyn · Mount Toolebewong · Olinda · Powelltown · Reefton · Sassafras · Sassafras Gully · Selby · Seville · Seville East · Sherbrooke · Silvan · Steels Creek · Tarrawarra · Tecoma · The Patch · Three Bridges · Toolangi · Tremont · Upper Ferntree Gully · Upwey · Wandin East · Wandin North · Warburton · Wesburn · Woori Yallock · Yarra Glen · Yarra Junction · Yellingbo · Yering

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