Riverview crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

Riverview is a suburb in the Lane Cove council area of New South Wales (about 43,094 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 14 out of 100 (very low), 353rd 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 robbery (40th percentile), sexual offences (21st percentile), homicide (18th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 15.

In 2024-25: violent 369 per 100,000 (+18% vs five years earlier); property 1,355 per 100,000 (-29% vs five years earlier); break-ins 209 per 100,000 (-27% vs five years earlier); theft 599 per 100,000 (-16% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 128th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Lane Cove council area is 3.6% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.7% of occupied homes (111 public and 147 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 92 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 22.9 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 40% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in China, England, India. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.5% (confidence 82 of 100); social housing about 1.5% of homes; about 22.5 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 40.6% 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 Riverview are those of the Lane Cove council area.

Lane Cove council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Nearby suburbs

Lane Cove · Lane Cove DC · Lane Cove North · Lane Cove West · Linley Point · Longueville · Northwood

australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/nsw/riverview/ · Australian Crime Map