Waterfall crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales
NSW Police (figures published by BOCSAR) recorded 51 offences in Waterfall in 2025-26, including 8 violent offences and 3 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Sutherland council area.
Waterfall is a suburb in the Sutherland council area of New South Wales (about 241,327 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 22 out of 100 (low), 323rd 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 robbery (51st percentile), homicide (39th percentile), sexual offences (27th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 28.
In 2025-26: violent 674 per 100,000 (+1% vs five years earlier); property 1,378 per 100,000 (-20% vs five years earlier); break-ins 104 per 100,000 (-19% vs five years earlier); theft 627 per 100,000 (-11% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 112th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Sutherland council area is 3.1% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.4% of occupied homes (1,518 public and 471 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 249 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 10.7 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 19.8% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in England, China, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.1% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 2.2% of homes; about 10.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 20.2% 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: 51 offences were recorded in Waterfall in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Sutherland council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 674 | 1,627 | +1% |
| Property | 1,378 | 3,325 | -20% |
| Break-ins | 104 | 251 | -19% |
| Theft | 627 | 1,512 | -11% |
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Questions
Is Waterfall safe?
Police recorded 51 offences in Waterfall in 2025-26, including 8 violent offences and 3 break-ins. Waterfall is not ranked against other suburbs: with 522 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Sutherland council area as a whole recorded 674 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 41% lower than the New South Wales rate (1,150) and about 47% 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 Waterfall?
In 2025-26 police recorded 51 offences in Waterfall, including 8 violent offences and 3 break-ins.
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