The Gap crime rate and Crime Score · Northern Territory

The Gap is a suburb in the Alice Springs council area of Northern Territory (about 30,875 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 93 out of 100 (very high), 5th of 362 councils nationally.

Modelled estimate, not police figures: The Gap (1,945 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 710 of the offences recorded each year in the Alice Springs council area (likely 350 to 1,180), roughly 37,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 210 violent offences (likely 130 to 300). 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 (94th percentile), break-ins (98th percentile), homicide (95th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 93.

In 2025-26: violent 6,708 per 100,000 (-5% vs five years earlier); property 12,732 per 100,000 (-35% vs five years earlier); break-ins 2,575 per 100,000 (-38% vs five years earlier); theft 3,968 per 100,000 (-40% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 2nd of 6 Northern Territory councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Alice Springs council area is 3.5% (Northern Territory 5.6%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 10.2% of occupied homes (781 public and 127 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Northern Territory 13.5%). An estimated 915 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 312.9 per 10,000 residents (Northern Territory 563.6), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 28.1% of residents were born overseas (Northern Territory 23.9%), most often in India, New Zealand, United States. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.2% (confidence 80 of 100); social housing about 9.4% of homes; about 307.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 28.6% 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 The Gap are those of the Alice Springs council area.

OffencesPer 100,000Count5-yr change
Violent6,7082,071-5%
Property12,7323,931-35%
Break-ins2,575795-38%
Theft3,9681,225-40%

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

Alice Springs council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Crime in postcode 0870: every suburb and council it covers.

Questions

Is The Gap safe?

Northern Territory publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. The Gap is in the Alice Springs council area, which recorded 6,710 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 65% higher than the Northern Territory rate (4,050) and 5.2 times the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for The Gap itself is roughly 37,000 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

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