Chatswood West crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

Chatswood West is a suburb in the Willoughby council area of New South Wales (about 80,520 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 23 out of 100 (low), 317th 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 robbery (51st percentile), homicide (37th percentile), sexual offences (28th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 28.

In 2024-25: violent 539 per 100,000 (+32% vs five years earlier); property 2,196 per 100,000 (-19% vs five years earlier); break-ins 211 per 100,000 (-11% vs five years earlier); theft 1,222 per 100,000 (-17% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 120th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Willoughby council area is 4.4% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.8% of occupied homes (266 public and 232 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 128 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 16.9 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 48% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in China, Hong Kong, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.3% (confidence 84 of 100); social housing about 1.6% of homes; about 16.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 48.7% 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 Chatswood West are those of the Willoughby council area.

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

Nearby suburbs

Artarmon · Castlecrag · Chatswood · Middle Cove · North Willoughby · Northbridge · Willoughby · Willoughby East

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