Yellow Pinch crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

Yellow Pinch is a suburb in the Bega Valley council area of New South Wales (about 36,921 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 26 out of 100 (low), 311th 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 (56th percentile), assault (24th percentile), homicide (18th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 37.

In 2024-25: violent 840 per 100,000 (+8% vs five years earlier); property 2,126 per 100,000 (-9% vs five years earlier); break-ins 255 per 100,000 (-36% vs five years earlier); theft 726 per 100,000 (-20% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 102nd of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Bega Valley council area is 3.5% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.5% of occupied homes (275 public and 95 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 154 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 42.7 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 13.1% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in England, New Zealand, Germany. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.5% (confidence 81 of 100); social housing about 2.3% of homes; about 42 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 13.3% 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 Yellow Pinch are those of the Bega Valley council area.

Bega Valley council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

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