Dorrigo crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales
NSW Police (figures published by BOCSAR) recorded 74 offences in Dorrigo in 2025-26, including 20 violent offences and 7 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Bellingen council area.
Dorrigo is a suburb in the Bellingen council area of New South Wales (about 13,348 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 47 out of 100 (moderate), 196th 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 (47th percentile), sexual offences (67th percentile), homicide (65th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 38.
In 2025-26: violent 1,281 per 100,000 (+10% vs five years earlier); property 2,472 per 100,000 (+20% vs five years earlier); break-ins 337 per 100,000 (+27% vs five years earlier); theft 809 per 100,000 (+44% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 65th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Bellingen council area is 5.3% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.1% of occupied homes (78 public and 31 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 50 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 37.6 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 13.7% 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 5.3% (confidence 76 of 100); social housing about 1.9% of homes; about 37 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 13.9% 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 suburb-level counts: 74 offences were recorded in Dorrigo in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Bellingen council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 1,281 | 171 | +10% |
| Property | 2,472 | 330 | +20% |
| Break-ins | 337 | 45 | +27% |
| Theft | 809 | 108 | +44% |
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Questions
Is Dorrigo safe?
Police recorded 74 offences in Dorrigo in 2025-26, including 20 violent offences and 7 break-ins. Dorrigo is not ranked against other suburbs: with 1,214 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Bellingen council area as a whole recorded 1,280 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 11% higher than the New South Wales rate (1,150) and close to 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 Dorrigo?
In 2025-26 police recorded 74 offences in Dorrigo, including 20 violent offences and 7 break-ins.
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