Marrara crime rate and Crime Score · Northern Territory

Marrara is a suburb in the Darwin council area of Northern Territory (about 90,035 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 82 out of 100 (very high), 21st of 362 councils nationally.

Modelled estimate, not police figures: Marrara (1,323 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 120 of the offences recorded each year in the Darwin council area (likely 57 to 190), roughly 8,800 per 100,000 residents, including about 30 violent offences (likely 18 to 43). 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 (89th percentile), homicide (87th percentile), break-ins (82nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 83.

In 2025-26: violent 3,023 per 100,000 (-6% vs five years earlier); property 6,131 per 100,000 (-17% vs five years earlier); break-ins 631 per 100,000 (-22% vs five years earlier); theft 2,914 per 100,000 (-12% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 4th of 6 Northern Territory councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Darwin council area is 4.1% (Northern Territory 5.6%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 6.8% of occupied homes (1,714 public and 207 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Northern Territory 13.5%). An estimated 1,421 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 164.7 per 10,000 residents (Northern Territory 563.6), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 37.1% of residents were born overseas (Northern Territory 23.9%), most often in Philippines, India, Nepal. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.8% (confidence 84 of 100); social housing about 6.2% of homes; about 162 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 37.7% 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 Marrara are those of the Darwin council area.

OffencesPer 100,000Count5-yr change
Violent3,0232,722-6%
Property6,1315,520-17%
Break-ins631568-22%
Theft2,9142,624-12%

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

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

Crime in postcode 0812: every suburb and council it covers.

Questions

Is Marrara safe?

Northern Territory publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Marrara is in the Darwin council area, which recorded 3,020 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 25% lower than the Northern Territory rate (4,050) and 2.4 times the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Marrara itself is roughly 8,800 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.

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