Pennant Hills crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales
Pennant Hills 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 15 out of 100 (very low), 348th 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 (39th percentile), robbery (31st percentile), sexual offences (24th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 17.
In 2024-25: violent 466 per 100,000 (+20% vs five years earlier); property 1,245 per 100,000 (-30% vs five years earlier); break-ins 136 per 100,000 (-33% vs five years earlier); theft 453 per 100,000 (-41% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 125th 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% (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 crime statistics by council area, not by suburb, so the figures shown for Pennant Hills are those of the Hornsby council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 466 | 724 | +20% |
| Property | 1,245 | 1,936 | -30% |
| Break-ins | 136 | 211 | -33% |
| Theft | 453 | 704 | -41% |
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