Shell Cove crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

Shell Cove is a suburb in the Shellharbour council area of New South Wales (about 83,228 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 38 out of 100 (low), 248th 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 (57th percentile), robbery (57th percentile), homicide (47th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 42.

In 2024-25: violent 974 per 100,000 (+9% vs five years earlier); property 2,601 per 100,000 (-9% vs five years earlier); break-ins 290 per 100,000 (-13% vs five years earlier); theft 1,095 per 100,000 (-10% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 85th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Shellharbour council area is 4.3% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 6.5% of occupied homes (1,598 public and 179 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 166 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 21.2 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 16.9% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in England, North Macedonia, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.2% (confidence 83 of 100); social housing about 5.8% of homes; about 20.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 17.1% 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 Shell Cove are those of the Shellharbour council area.

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

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