Fyshwick crime rate and Crime Score · Australian Capital Territory

Fyshwick 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 44 out of 100 (moderate), 217th 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 (55th percentile), robbery (65th percentile), assault (35th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 57.

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 Fyshwick are those of the Unincorporated ACT council area.

Unincorporated ACT council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

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