Alyangula crime rate and Crime Score · Northern Territory
Alyangula is a suburb in the Unincorporated NT council area of Northern Territory (about 8,207 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 49 out of 100 (moderate), 181st of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Alyangula (751 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 28 of the offences recorded each year in the Unincorporated NT council area (likely 14 to 47), roughly 3,800 per 100,000 residents, including about 10 violent offences (likely 5 to 16). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 44 of 100. The estimate shares the council's published total (2025-26, three-year average) between its suburbs using a model trained on South Australia's suburb-level police data and ABS measures of each suburb's population and socio-economic profile.
The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by assault (63rd percentile), break-ins (78th percentile), homicide (76th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 59.
In 2025-26: violent 1,316 per 100,000 (+36% vs five years earlier); property 2,364 per 100,000 (-43% vs five years earlier); break-ins 865 per 100,000 (-23% vs five years earlier); theft 597 per 100,000 (-42% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 6th of 6 Northern Territory councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Unincorporated NT council area is 2.3% (Northern Territory 5.6%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.9% of occupied homes (42 public and 39 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Northern Territory 13.5%). An estimated 280 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 367.2 per 10,000 residents (Northern Territory 563.6), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 22.7% of residents were born overseas (Northern Territory 23.9%), most often in New Zealand, Philippines, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 2.2% (confidence 73 of 100); social housing about 3.5% of homes; about 361 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 23.1% born overseas. Confidence falls with distance from the last published figure, and the map's Estimates toggle shows every year back to 1994-95.
Northern Territory publishes crime statistics by council area, not by suburb, so the figures shown for Alyangula are those of the Unincorporated NT council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 1,316 | 108 | +36% |
| Property | 2,364 | 194 | -43% |
| Break-ins | 865 | 71 | -23% |
| Theft | 597 | 49 | -42% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Unincorporated NT council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 0885: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Alyangula safe?
Northern Territory publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Alyangula is in the Unincorporated NT council area, which recorded 1,320 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 68% lower than the Northern Territory rate (4,050) and close to the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Alyangula itself is roughly 3,800 offences of all kinds per 100,000 residents a year (an estimate, not police figures). 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.
australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/nt/alyangula/ · Australian Crime Map