Bookookoorara crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales
Bookookoorara is a suburb in the Tenterfield council area of New South Wales (about 7,188 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 61 out of 100 (high), 119th 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 assault (69th percentile), break-ins (79th percentile), sexual offences (75th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 57.
In 2025-26: violent 1,461 per 100,000 (-26% vs five years earlier); property 4,104 per 100,000 (+34% vs five years earlier); break-ins 890 per 100,000 (+133% vs five years earlier); theft 918 per 100,000 (+8% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 51st of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Tenterfield council area is 6.9% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.8% of occupied homes (40 public and 41 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 16 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 23.2 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 9.7% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in England, New Zealand, Germany. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 6.9% (confidence 72 of 100); social housing about 2.5% of homes; about 22.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 9.9% 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 Bookookoorara are those of the Tenterfield council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 1,461 | 105 | -26% |
| Property | 4,104 | 295 | +34% |
| Break-ins | 890 | 64 | +133% |
| Theft | 918 | 66 | +8% |
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Questions
Is Bookookoorara safe?
New South Wales publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Bookookoorara is in the Tenterfield council area, which recorded 1,460 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 27% higher than the New South Wales rate (1,150) and about 14% higher than the national rate (1,280). 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.
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