Upper Bingara crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

Upper Bingara is a suburb in the Gwydir council area of New South Wales (about 4,968 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 39 out of 100 (low), 241st 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 (68th percentile), assault (43rd percentile), break-ins (58th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 51.

In 2024-25: violent 1,268 per 100,000 (-5% vs five years earlier); property 2,154 per 100,000 (-13% vs five years earlier); break-ins 624 per 100,000 (+42% vs five years earlier); theft 584 per 100,000 (-29% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 66th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Gwydir council area is 4.2% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 0.9% of occupied homes (8 public and 10 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 11 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 22.3 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 4.7% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in England, New Zealand, Germany. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.1% (confidence 71 of 100); social housing about 0.9% of homes; about 21.9 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 4.7% 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 Upper Bingara are those of the Gwydir council area.

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

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