La Perouse crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

NSW Police (figures published by BOCSAR) recorded 110 offences in La Perouse in 2025-26, including 26 violent offences and 4 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Randwick council area.

La Perouse is a suburb in the Randwick council area of New South Wales (about 146,484 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 35 out of 100 (low), 275th 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 robbery (76th percentile), homicide (43rd percentile), assault (29th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 37.

In 2025-26: violent 788 per 100,000 (-11% vs five years earlier); property 2,540 per 100,000 (+12% vs five years earlier); break-ins 251 per 100,000 (+37% vs five years earlier); theft 1,192 per 100,000 (+30% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 104th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Randwick council area is 4.3% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 6.3% of occupied homes (2,778 public and 460 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 872 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 64.1 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 41.6% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in England, China, Ireland. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.2% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 5.7% of homes; about 63 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 42.2% 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 suburb-level counts: 110 offences were recorded in La Perouse in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Randwick council area.

OffencesPer 100,000Count5-yr change
Violent7881,155-11%
Property2,5403,721+12%
Break-ins251367+37%
Theft1,1921,746+30%

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Questions

Is La Perouse safe?

Police recorded 110 offences in La Perouse in 2025-26, including 26 violent offences and 4 break-ins. La Perouse is not ranked against other suburbs: with 366 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Randwick council area as a whole recorded 788 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 31% lower than the New South Wales rate (1,150) and about 38% lower than 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 La Perouse?

In 2025-26 police recorded 110 offences in La Perouse, including 26 violent offences and 4 break-ins.

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