Dawes Point crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

Dawes Point is a suburb in the Sydney council area of New South Wales (about 241,797 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 70 out of 100 (high), 70th 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 (82nd percentile), robbery (94th percentile), sexual offences (77th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 76.

In 2024-25: violent 2,328 per 100,000 (+5% vs five years earlier); property 6,351 per 100,000 (-14% vs five years earlier); break-ins 409 per 100,000 (-17% vs five years earlier); theft 3,901 per 100,000 (-7% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 20th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Sydney council area is 5.6% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 7.2% of occupied homes (5,641 public and 1,414 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 3,514 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 160.5 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 52.1% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in China, England, Thailand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5.4% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 6.5% of homes; about 157.9 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 53% 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 Dawes Point are those of the Sydney council area.

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