Stewarts Mount crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales
Stewarts Mount is a suburb in the Bathurst council area of New South Wales (about 45,359 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 54 out of 100 (moderate), 148th 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 assault (68th percentile), sexual offences (75th percentile), robbery (76th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 63.
In 2025-26: violent 1,579 per 100,000 (-15% vs five years earlier); property 2,844 per 100,000 (-27% vs five years earlier); break-ins 298 per 100,000 (-38% vs five years earlier); theft 1,109 per 100,000 (-20% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 47th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Bathurst council area is 4.1% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.9% of occupied homes (500 public and 116 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 158 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 35.7 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 10.6% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in England, New Zealand, India. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4% (confidence 82 of 100); social housing about 3.5% of homes; about 35.2 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 10.7% 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 Stewarts Mount are those of the Bathurst council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 1,579 | 716 | -15% |
| Property | 2,844 | 1,290 | -27% |
| Break-ins | 298 | 135 | -38% |
| Theft | 1,109 | 503 | -20% |
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Questions
Is Stewarts Mount safe?
New South Wales publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Stewarts Mount is in the Bathurst council area, which recorded 1,580 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 37% higher than the New South Wales rate (1,150) and about 23% higher than the national rate (1,280). These are offences recorded by police per resident: they describe the area as a whole, not the risk on any particular street, and places with a busy centre record more because offences are counted where they happen.
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