Bondi Beach crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

Bondi Beach is a suburb in the Waverley council area of New South Wales (about 73,345 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 46 out of 100 (moderate), 203rd 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), robbery (74th percentile), assault (36th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 43.

In 2024-25: violent 923 per 100,000 (+7% vs five years earlier); property 2,940 per 100,000 (-17% vs five years earlier); break-ins 179 per 100,000 (+11% vs five years earlier); theft 1,756 per 100,000 (-17% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 91st of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Waverley council area is 3.7% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.7% of occupied homes (341 public and 122 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 371 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 53.4 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 44% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in England, South Africa, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.6% (confidence 84 of 100); social housing about 1.5% of homes; about 52.5 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 44.7% 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 Bondi Beach are those of the Waverley council area.

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

Nearby suburbs

Bondi · Bondi Junction · Bronte · North Bondi · Queens Park · Tamarama · Waverley

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