Linden crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

Linden is a suburb in the Blue Mountains council area of New South Wales (about 79,236 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 28 out of 100 (low), 301st 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 sexual offences (50th percentile), homicide (40th percentile), assault (25th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 31.

In 2024-25: violent 799 per 100,000 (+19% vs five years earlier); property 1,426 per 100,000 (-38% vs five years earlier); break-ins 121 per 100,000 (-45% vs five years earlier); theft 509 per 100,000 (-29% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 106th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Blue Mountains council area is 3.9% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.9% of occupied homes (207 public and 387 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 118 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 15.1 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 18% 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 3.8% (confidence 83 of 100); social housing about 1.8% of homes; about 14.9 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 18.3% 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 Linden are those of the Blue Mountains council area.

Blue Mountains council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

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