Milsons Passage crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales
NSW Police (figures published by BOCSAR) recorded 3 offences in Milsons Passage in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Hornsby council area.
Milsons Passage is a suburb in the Hornsby council area of New South Wales (about 155,484 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 16 out of 100 (very low), 349th 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 homicide (35th percentile), robbery (41st percentile), sexual offences (25th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 18.
In 2025-26: violent 460 per 100,000 (+3% vs five years earlier); property 1,255 per 100,000 (-17% vs five years earlier); break-ins 107 per 100,000 (-22% vs five years earlier); theft 518 per 100,000 (-12% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 126th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Hornsby council area is 4.1% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2% of occupied homes (499 public and 514 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 199 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 13.1 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 China, India, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.1% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 1.8% of homes; about 12.9 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: 3 offences were recorded in Milsons Passage in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Hornsby council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 460 | 716 | +3% |
| Property | 1,255 | 1,951 | -17% |
| Break-ins | 107 | 167 | -22% |
| Theft | 518 | 805 | -12% |
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Questions
Is Milsons Passage safe?
Police recorded 3 offences in Milsons Passage in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins. Milsons Passage is not ranked against other suburbs: with 32 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Hornsby council area as a whole recorded 460 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 60% lower than the New South Wales rate (1,150) and about 64% 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 Milsons Passage?
In 2025-26 police recorded 3 offences in Milsons Passage, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins.
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