Womerah crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales
Womerah is a suburb in the Hawkesbury council area of New South Wales (about 69,299 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 37 out of 100 (low), 265th 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 sexual offences (64th percentile), assault (40th percentile), homicide (44th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 37.
In 2025-26: violent 1,017 per 100,000 (+7% vs five years earlier); property 2,146 per 100,000 (-1% vs five years earlier); break-ins 193 per 100,000 (-25% vs five years earlier); theft 834 per 100,000 (+29% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 85th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Hawkesbury council area is 3.2% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.5% of occupied homes (536 public and 264 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 236 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 34.8 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 13.9% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in England, New Zealand, India. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.2% (confidence 83 of 100); social housing about 3.1% of homes; about 34.2 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 14.1% 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 Womerah are those of the Hawkesbury council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 1,017 | 705 | +7% |
| Property | 2,146 | 1,487 | -1% |
| Break-ins | 193 | 134 | -25% |
| Theft | 834 | 578 | +29% |
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Questions
Is Womerah safe?
New South Wales publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Womerah is in the Hawkesbury council area, which recorded 1,020 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 12% lower than the New South Wales rate (1,150) and about 21% 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.
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