Kayuga crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

Kayuga is a suburb in the Muswellbrook council area of New South Wales (about 16,859 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 75 out of 100 (high), 45th 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), sexual offences (92nd percentile), robbery (83rd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 69.

In 2024-25: violent 2,390 per 100,000 (+36% vs five years earlier); property 4,704 per 100,000 (-1% vs five years earlier); break-ins 664 per 100,000 (-15% vs five years earlier); theft 1,904 per 100,000 (+9% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 15th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Muswellbrook council area is 5.1% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 5.2% of occupied homes (237 public and 78 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 50 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 30.2 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 9.1% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in New Zealand, England, Philippines. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5% (confidence 78 of 100); social housing about 4.7% of homes; about 29.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 9.2% 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 Kayuga are those of the Muswellbrook council area.

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

Nearby suburbs

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