Cardiff crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

Cardiff is a suburb in the Lake Macquarie council area of New South Wales (about 224,540 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 42 out of 100 (moderate), 223rd 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 (41st percentile), sexual offences (58th percentile), robbery (64th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 49.

In 2024-25: violent 1,162 per 100,000 (+23% vs five years earlier); property 2,932 per 100,000 (-12% vs five years earlier); break-ins 332 per 100,000 (-14% vs five years earlier); theft 1,256 per 100,000 (-2% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 75th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Lake Macquarie council area is 4.6% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 4.5% of occupied homes (3,057 public and 604 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 393 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 18.1 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 11.2% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in England, New Zealand, India. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.5% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 4.1% of homes; about 17.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 11.4% born overseas. Confidence falls with distance from the last published figure, and the map's Estimates toggle shows every year back to 1994-95.

New South Wales publishes crime statistics by council area, not by suburb, so the figures shown for Cardiff are those of the Lake Macquarie council area.

Lake Macquarie council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Nearby suburbs

Argenton · Barnsley · Bennetts Green · Boolaroo · Booragul · Cameron Park · Cardiff Heights · Cardiff South · Charlestown · Dudley · Edgeworth · Eleebana · Gateshead · Glendale · Hillsborough · Holmesville · Kahibah · Killingworth · Lakelands · Macquarie Hills · Marmong Point · Mount Hutton · Seahampton · Speers Point · Teralba · Wakefield · Warners Bay · West Wallsend · Windale · Woodrising

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