Ramsgate crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

Ramsgate is a suburb in the Bayside council area of New South Wales (about 187,770 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 31 out of 100 (low), 292nd 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 (53rd percentile), robbery (57th percentile), assault (28th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 35.

In 2024-25: violent 737 per 100,000 (-8% vs five years earlier); property 2,155 per 100,000 (-15% vs five years earlier); break-ins 177 per 100,000 (-17% vs five years earlier); theft 974 per 100,000 (-2% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 108th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Bayside council area is 5.5% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.4% of occupied homes (1,812 public and 415 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 862 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 48.4 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, Nepal, Indonesia. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5.4% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 3.1% of homes; about 47.6 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 Ramsgate are those of the Bayside council area.

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

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