Ashbury crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales
Ashbury is a suburb in the Canterbury-Bankstown council area of New South Wales (about 389,687 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 36 out of 100 (low), 263rd 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 (60th percentile), assault (40th percentile), robbery (60th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 37.
In 2024-25: violent 955 per 100,000 (+24% vs five years earlier); property 2,139 per 100,000 (-12% vs five years earlier); break-ins 189 per 100,000 (-23% vs five years earlier); theft 808 per 100,000 (-11% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 88th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Canterbury-Bankstown council area is 7.2% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 7.9% of occupied homes (7,514 public and 1,678 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 2,734 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 73.4 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 47.6% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in Vietnam, Lebanon, China. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 7% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 7.1% of homes; about 72.2 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 48.3% born overseas. Confidence falls with distance from the last published figure, and the map's Estimates toggle shows every year back to 1994-95.
New South Wales publishes crime statistics by council area, not by suburb, so the figures shown for Ashbury are those of the Canterbury-Bankstown council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 955 | 3,723 | +24% |
| Property | 2,139 | 8,336 | -12% |
| Break-ins | 189 | 736 | -23% |
| Theft | 808 | 3,148 | -11% |
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