Dover Heights crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

Dover Heights is a suburb in the Woollahra council area of New South Wales (about 55,218 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 26 out of 100 (low), 305th 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 homicide (46th percentile), sexual offences (37th percentile), robbery (37th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 22.

In 2024-25: violent 625 per 100,000 (+19% vs five years earlier); property 1,892 per 100,000 (-9% vs five years earlier); break-ins 196 per 100,000 (-14% vs five years earlier); theft 835 per 100,000 (-7% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 116th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Woollahra council area is 3.3% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 0.4% of occupied homes (60 public and 35 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 345 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 64.3 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 35.9% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in England, South Africa, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.2% (confidence 83 of 100); social housing about 0.4% of homes; about 63.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 36.5% 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 Dover Heights are those of the Woollahra council area.

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

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