Wareemba crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

NSW Police (figures published by BOCSAR) recorded 26 offences in Wareemba in 2025-26, including 1 violent offences and 5 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Canada Bay council area.

Wareemba is a suburb in the Canada Bay council area of New South Wales (about 93,006 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 22 out of 100 (low), 327th 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 homicide (54th percentile), robbery (32nd percentile), sexual offences (21st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 19.

In 2025-26: violent 572 per 100,000 (+46% vs five years earlier); property 1,855 per 100,000 (-8% vs five years earlier); break-ins 237 per 100,000 (+21% vs five years earlier); theft 886 per 100,000 (+27% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 121st of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Canada Bay council area is 4.1% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.4% of occupied homes (626 public and 211 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 266 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 29.8 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 41.7% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in China, Italy, South Korea. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4% (confidence 84 of 100); social housing about 2.2% of homes; about 29.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 42.4% 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: 26 offences were recorded in Wareemba in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Canada Bay council area.

OffencesPer 100,000Count5-yr change
Violent572532+46%
Property1,8551,725-8%
Break-ins237220+21%
Theft886824+27%

Canada Bay council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Crime in postcode 2046: every suburb and council it covers.

Questions

Is Wareemba safe?

Police recorded 26 offences in Wareemba in 2025-26, including 1 violent offences and 5 break-ins. Wareemba is not ranked against other suburbs: with 1,519 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Canada Bay council area as a whole recorded 572 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 50% lower than the New South Wales rate (1,150) and about 55% lower 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.

What is the crime rate in Wareemba?

In 2025-26 police recorded 26 offences in Wareemba, including 1 violent offences and 5 break-ins.

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