Cleveland crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

NSW Police (figures published by BOCSAR) recorded 8 offences in Cleveland in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 2 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Wollongong council area.

Cleveland is a suburb in the Wollongong council area of New South Wales (about 224,327 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 45 out of 100 (moderate), 208th 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 (69th percentile), sexual offences (57th percentile), assault (37th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 49.

In 2025-26: violent 1,099 per 100,000 (+17% vs five years earlier); property 2,948 per 100,000 (-7% vs five years earlier); break-ins 316 per 100,000 (-15% vs five years earlier); theft 1,440 per 100,000 (-1% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 75th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Wollongong council area is 4.9% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 7% of occupied homes (5,120 public and 545 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 821 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 37.9 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 21.9% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in England, North Macedonia, Italy. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.8% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 6.4% of homes; about 37.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 22.3% 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 suburb-level counts: 8 offences were recorded in Cleveland in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Wollongong council area.

OffencesPer 100,000Count5-yr change
Violent1,0992,466+17%
Property2,9486,613-7%
Break-ins316708-15%
Theft1,4403,231-1%

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Questions

Is Cleveland safe?

Police recorded 8 offences in Cleveland in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 2 break-ins. Cleveland is not ranked against other suburbs: with 22 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Wollongong council area as a whole recorded 1,100 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, close to the New South Wales rate (1,150) and about 14% lower 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.

What is the crime rate in Cleveland?

In 2025-26 police recorded 8 offences in Cleveland, including 0 violent offences and 2 break-ins.

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