Wetherill Park crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

Wetherill Park is a suburb in the Fairfield council area of New South Wales (about 213,677 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 35 out of 100 (low), 275th 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 (39th percentile), homicide (47th percentile), robbery (52nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 41.

In 2024-25: violent 885 per 100,000 (+7% vs five years earlier); property 2,084 per 100,000 (-17% vs five years earlier); break-ins 146 per 100,000 (-28% vs five years earlier); theft 886 per 100,000 (-16% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 94th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Fairfield council area is 8.7% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 8.1% of occupied homes (3,912 public and 1,005 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 1,554 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 75 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 59.2% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in Vietnam, Iraq, Cambodia. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 8.5% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 7.3% of homes; about 73.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 60.2% 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 Wetherill Park are those of the Fairfield council area.

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

Nearby suburbs

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