Middle Cove crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales
NSW Police (figures published by BOCSAR) recorded 18 offences in Middle Cove in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 5 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Willoughby council area.
Middle Cove is a suburb in the Willoughby council area of New South Wales (about 80,520 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 24 out of 100 (low), 320th 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 (45th percentile), homicide (37th percentile), sexual offences (27th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 26.
In 2025-26: violent 589 per 100,000 (+29% vs five years earlier); property 2,425 per 100,000 (-7% vs five years earlier); break-ins 215 per 100,000 (+37% vs five years earlier); theft 1,405 per 100,000 (-2% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 119th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Willoughby council area is 4.4% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.8% of occupied homes (266 public and 232 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 128 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 16.9 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 48% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in China, Hong Kong, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.4% (confidence 84 of 100); social housing about 1.6% of homes; about 16.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 48.7% 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: 18 offences were recorded in Middle Cove in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Willoughby council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 589 | 474 | +29% |
| Property | 2,425 | 1,953 | -7% |
| Break-ins | 215 | 173 | +37% |
| Theft | 1,405 | 1,131 | -2% |
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Questions
Is Middle Cove safe?
Police recorded 18 offences in Middle Cove in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 5 break-ins. Middle Cove is not ranked against other suburbs: with 1,327 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Willoughby council area as a whole recorded 589 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 49% lower than the New South Wales rate (1,150) and about 54% 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 Middle Cove?
In 2025-26 police recorded 18 offences in Middle Cove, including 0 violent offences and 5 break-ins.
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