Deakin crime rate and Crime Score · Australian Capital Territory
Deakin is a suburb in the Unincorporated ACT council area of Australian Capital Territory (about 484,630 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 42 out of 100 (moderate), 233rd of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Deakin (3,124 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 99 of the offences recorded each year in the Unincorporated ACT council area (likely 49 to 160), roughly 3,200 per 100,000 residents, including about 12 violent offences (likely 6 to 20). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 44 of 100. The estimate shares the council's published total (2025-26, three-year average) between its suburbs using a model trained on South Australia's suburb-level police data and ABS measures of each suburb's population and socio-economic profile.
The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by homicide (58th percentile), robbery (64th percentile), assault (32nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 58.
In 2024-25: violent 806 per 100,000 (-1% vs five years earlier); property 2,568 per 100,000 (-28% vs five years earlier); break-ins 354 per 100,000 (-32% vs five years earlier); theft 1,378 per 100,000 (-25% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 1st of 1 Australian Capital Territory councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Unincorporated ACT council area is 3.8% (Australian Capital Territory 3.8%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 5.7% of occupied homes (8,569 public and 1,012 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Australian Capital Territory 5.7%). An estimated 1,809 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 39.2 per 10,000 residents (Australian Capital Territory 39.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 29.9% of residents were born overseas (Australian Capital Territory 29.9%), most often in India, England, China. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4% (confidence 86 of 100); social housing about 5.2% of homes; about 38.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 30.4% born overseas. Confidence falls with distance from the last published figure, and the map's Estimates toggle shows every year back to 1994-95.
Australian Capital Territory publishes crime statistics by council area, not by suburb, so the figures shown for Deakin are those of the Unincorporated ACT council area.
Figures are for 2024-25, the latest year Australian Capital Territory has published; some other states have released 2025-26.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 806 | 3,908 | -1% |
| Property | 2,568 | 12,443 | -28% |
| Break-ins | 354 | 1,715 | -32% |
| Theft | 1,378 | 6,677 | -25% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Unincorporated ACT council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 2600: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Deakin safe?
Australian Capital Territory publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Deakin is in the Unincorporated ACT council area, which recorded 806 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, close to the Australian Capital Territory rate (806) and about 34% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Deakin itself is roughly 3,200 offences of all kinds per 100,000 residents a year (an estimate, not police figures). These are offences recorded by police per resident: they describe the area as a whole, not the risk on any particular street, and places with a busy centre record more because offences are counted where they happen.
Police news near Deakin
- Charges laid following Ginninderra Drive stabbing incident · Belconnen, 31 Oct 2026 · 9 km away
- Man charged after shooting at a vehicle and injuring teenager · Gordon, 10 Oct 2026 · 17 km away
- Elderly man dies following Bruce collision · Bruce, 21 Sept 2026 · 9 km away
- Man charged with murder following May arson incident · Belconnen, 8 Sept 2026 · 9 km away
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