Putney crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

Putney is a suburb in the Ryde council area of New South Wales (about 141,693 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 18 out of 100 (very low), 341st 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 (36th percentile), robbery (33rd percentile), sexual offences (22nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 23.

In 2024-25: violent 538 per 100,000 (0% vs five years earlier); property 1,695 per 100,000 (-26% vs five years earlier); break-ins 202 per 100,000 (-12% vs five years earlier); theft 795 per 100,000 (-16% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 121st of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Ryde council area is 5.1% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.2% of occupied homes (954 public and 608 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 356 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 27.1 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 50.8% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in China, India, South Korea. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.9% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 2.9% of homes; about 26.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 51.6% 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 Putney are those of the Ryde council area.

Ryde council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Nearby suburbs

Denistone · Denistone East · Denistone West · East Ryde · Eastwood · Gladesville · Henley · Huntleys Cove · Huntleys Point · Macquarie Park · Marsfield · Meadowbank · Melrose Park · North Ryde · Ryde · Tennyson Point · West Ryde

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