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Teens charged following alleged armed robbery - Blacktown

NSW Police·
Teens charged following alleged armed robbery - Blacktown
Blacktown, New South Wales · NSW Police
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Crime in the Blacktown council area

Blacktown is a council area in New South Wales with about 449,385 residents. It has a Crime Score 44 out of 100 (moderate), 213th 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 (53rd percentile), robbery (83rd percentile), sexual offences (45th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 57.

Violent
1,246 per 100k
Property
2,460 per 100k
Break-ins
212 per 100k
Theft
1,029 per 100k

See the full Blacktown crime profile

2016-17: 1,304 per 100,0002017-18: 1,294 per 100,0002018-19: 1,318 per 100,0002019-20: 1,316 per 100,0002020-21: 1,361 per 100,0002021-22: 1,064 per 100,0002022-23: 1,169 per 100,0002023-24: 1,219 per 100,0002024-25: 1,246 per 100,0002025-26: 978 per 100,0002016-172021-222025-26
Recorded violent offences per 100,000 residents in Blacktown, 2016-17 to 2025-26 — down 25% over the period. Source: recorded crime published for New South Wales.

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