Ballina crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

Ballina is a suburb in the Ballina council area of New South Wales (about 48,603 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 49 out of 100 (moderate), 178th 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 (77th percentile), sexual offences (53rd percentile), assault (34th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 41.

In 2024-25: violent 961 per 100,000 (+39% vs five years earlier); property 3,169 per 100,000 (+17% vs five years earlier); break-ins 529 per 100,000 (+39% vs five years earlier); theft 1,200 per 100,000 (+6% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 87th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Ballina council area is 3.4% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.7% of occupied homes (531 public and 140 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 124 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 26.4 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 13.5% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in England, New Zealand, South Africa. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.3% (confidence 82 of 100); social housing about 3.3% of homes; about 26 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 13.7% 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 Ballina are those of the Ballina council area.

Ballina council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Nearby suburbs

Alstonvale · Alstonville · Bagotville · Cabbage Tree Island · East Ballina · Empire Vale · Goat Island · Lennox Head · Meerschaum Vale · Patchs Beach · Pearces Creek · Rous Mill · Skennars Head · South Ballina · Teven · Tintenbar · Uralba · Wardell · West Ballina

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