Katherine East crime rate and Crime Score · Northern Territory

Katherine East is a suburb in the Katherine council area of Northern Territory (about 11,282 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 94 out of 100 (very high), 3rd of 362 councils nationally.

Modelled estimate, not police figures: Katherine East (3,061 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 720 of the offences recorded each year in the Katherine council area (likely 360 to 1,190), roughly 24,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 330 violent offences (likely 200 to 470). 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 (96th percentile), homicide (99th percentile), break-ins (97th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 89.

In 2025-26: violent 9,635 per 100,000 (+61% vs five years earlier); property 11,673 per 100,000 (+31% vs five years earlier); break-ins 2,845 per 100,000 (+31% vs five years earlier); theft 3,333 per 100,000 (+28% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 1st of 6 Northern Territory councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Katherine council area is 3.9% (Northern Territory 5.6%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 13.4% of occupied homes (284 public and 98 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Northern Territory 13.5%). An estimated 492 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 447.9 per 10,000 residents (Northern Territory 563.6), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 17.7% of residents were born overseas (Northern Territory 23.9%), most often in Philippines, Nepal, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.6% (confidence 75 of 100); social housing about 12.3% of homes; about 440.4 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 18% 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 Katherine East are those of the Katherine council area.

OffencesPer 100,000Count5-yr change
Violent9,6351,087+61%
Property11,6731,317+31%
Break-ins2,845321+31%
Theft3,333376+28%

How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.

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

Crime in postcode 0850: every suburb and council it covers.

Questions

Is Katherine East safe?

Northern Territory publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Katherine East is in the Katherine council area, which recorded 9,630 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, 2.4 times the Northern Territory rate (4,050) and 7.5 times the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Katherine East itself is roughly 24,000 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.

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Nearby suburbs

Cossack · Emungalan · Katherine · Katherine South · Lansdowne · Tindal

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