Summer Hill Creek crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

Summer Hill Creek is a suburb in the Orange council area of New South Wales (about 44,990 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 70 out of 100 (high), 68th 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 (74th percentile), sexual offences (80th percentile), robbery (92nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 78.

In 2024-25: violent 1,852 per 100,000 (-1% vs five years earlier); property 4,021 per 100,000 (-27% vs five years earlier); break-ins 653 per 100,000 (-39% vs five years earlier); theft 1,443 per 100,000 (-27% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 36th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Orange council area is 3.5% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 5.6% of occupied homes (738 public and 176 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 105 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 23.8 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 11.3% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in England, India, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.5% (confidence 82 of 100); social housing about 5.1% of homes; about 23.4 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 11.5% 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 Summer Hill Creek are those of the Orange council area.

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

Nearby suburbs

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