Fords Bridge crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales
NSW Police (figures published by BOCSAR) recorded 16 offences in Fords Bridge in 2025-26, including 3 violent offences and 2 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Bourke council area.
Fords Bridge is a suburb in the Bourke council area of New South Wales (about 2,310 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 97 out of 100 (very high), 1st 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 (95th percentile), break-ins (100th percentile), sexual offences (99th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 98.
In 2025-26: violent 10,519 per 100,000 (0% vs five years earlier); property 18,355 per 100,000 (-26% vs five years earlier); break-ins 6,494 per 100,000 (+31% vs five years earlier); theft 5,281 per 100,000 (-22% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 1st of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Bourke council area is 2.7% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 10.9% of occupied homes (48 public and 36 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 4 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 17 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 5.7% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in India, Nepal, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 2.6% (confidence 68 of 100); social housing about 9.8% of homes; about 16.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 5.7% 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 suburb-level counts: 16 offences were recorded in Fords Bridge in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Bourke council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 10,519 | 243 | -0% |
| Property | 18,355 | 424 | -26% |
| Break-ins | 6,494 | 150 | +31% |
| Theft | 5,281 | 122 | -22% |
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Questions
Is Fords Bridge safe?
Police recorded 16 offences in Fords Bridge in 2025-26, including 3 violent offences and 2 break-ins. Fords Bridge is not ranked against other suburbs: with 30 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Bourke council area as a whole recorded 10,500 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, 9.1 times the New South Wales rate (1,150) and 8.2 times 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 Fords Bridge?
In 2025-26 police recorded 16 offences in Fords Bridge, including 3 violent offences and 2 break-ins.
Nearby suburbs
Barringun · Bourke · Enngonia · Gumbalie · Gunderbooka · Hungerford · Louth · North Bourke · Yantabulla
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