Wanaaring crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales
NSW Police (figures published by BOCSAR) recorded 9 offences in Wanaaring in 2025-26, including 1 violent offences and 0 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Unincorporated NSW council area.
Wanaaring is a suburb in the Unincorporated NSW council area of New South Wales (about 975 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 79 out of 100 (high), 28th 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 (86th percentile), sexual offences (98th percentile), break-ins (86th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 78.
In 2025-26: violent 4,103 per 100,000 (+49% vs five years earlier); property 6,974 per 100,000 (+13% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,333 per 100,000 (+127% vs five years earlier); theft 2,359 per 100,000 (+20% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 7th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Unincorporated NSW council area is 2.5% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2% of occupied homes (7 public and 0 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 6 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 60.2 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 11.1% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in New Zealand, England, Fiji. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 2.8% (confidence 67 of 100); social housing about 1.8% of homes; about 59.2 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 11.3% 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 suburb-level counts: 9 offences were recorded in Wanaaring in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Unincorporated NSW council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 4,103 | 40 | +49% |
| Property | 6,974 | 68 | +13% |
| Break-ins | 1,333 | 13 | +127% |
| Theft | 2,359 | 23 | +20% |
Unincorporated NSW council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Questions
Is Wanaaring safe?
Police recorded 9 offences in Wanaaring in 2025-26, including 1 violent offences and 0 break-ins. Wanaaring is not ranked against other suburbs: with 81 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Unincorporated NSW council area as a whole recorded 4,100 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, 3.6 times the New South Wales rate (1,150) and 3.2 times 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.
What is the crime rate in Wanaaring?
In 2025-26 police recorded 9 offences in Wanaaring, including 1 violent offences and 0 break-ins.
Police news near Wanaaring
- Man charged over alleged serious assault of elderly man - Broken Hill · Broken Hill, 15 Sept 2026 · 238 km away
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