Westmead crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

Westmead is a suburb in the Cumberland council area of New South Wales (about 256,906 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 41 out of 100 (moderate), 234th 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 (74th percentile), assault (40th percentile), homicide (57th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 46.

In 2024-25: violent 993 per 100,000 (+10% vs five years earlier); property 2,453 per 100,000 (-16% vs five years earlier); break-ins 279 per 100,000 (-15% vs five years earlier); theft 1,121 per 100,000 (-2% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 84th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Cumberland council area is 8.3% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 7.1% of occupied homes (3,940 public and 1,147 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 2,265 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 95.2 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 57.3% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in India, China, Lebanon. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 8.1% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 6.4% of homes; about 93.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 58.2% 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 crime statistics by council area, not by suburb, so the figures shown for Westmead are those of the Cumberland council area.

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

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