Mount Darragh crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

NSW Police (figures published by BOCSAR) recorded 8 offences in Mount Darragh in 2025-26, including 1 violent offences and 1 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Bega Valley council area.

Mount Darragh is a suburb in the Bega Valley council area of New South Wales (about 36,921 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 29 out of 100 (low), 297th 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 (52nd percentile), homicide (43rd percentile), assault (27th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 34.

In 2025-26: violent 905 per 100,000 (+4% vs five years earlier); property 1,850 per 100,000 (-11% vs five years earlier); break-ins 179 per 100,000 (-50% vs five years earlier); theft 699 per 100,000 (+4% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 95th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Bega Valley council area is 3.5% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.5% of occupied homes (275 public and 95 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 154 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 42.7 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 13.1% 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 3.5% (confidence 81 of 100); social housing about 2.3% of homes; about 42 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 13.3% 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 suburb-level counts: 8 offences were recorded in Mount Darragh in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Bega Valley council area.

OffencesPer 100,000Count5-yr change
Violent905334+4%
Property1,850683-11%
Break-ins17966-50%
Theft699258+4%

Bega Valley council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Crime in postcode 2632: every suburb and council it covers.

Questions

Is Mount Darragh safe?

Police recorded 8 offences in Mount Darragh in 2025-26, including 1 violent offences and 1 break-ins. Mount Darragh is not ranked against other suburbs: with 25 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Bega Valley council area as a whole recorded 905 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 21% lower than the New South Wales rate (1,150) and about 29% 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 Mount Darragh?

In 2025-26 police recorded 8 offences in Mount Darragh, including 1 violent offences and 1 break-ins.

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