Andrews Farm crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia

Andrews Farm is a suburb in the Playford council area of South Australia (about 115,790 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 74 out of 100 (high), 45th of 362 councils nationally.

Modelled estimate, not police figures: Andrews Farm (8,699 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 860 of the offences recorded each year in the Playford council area (likely 430 to 1,420), roughly 9,900 per 100,000 residents, including about 190 violent offences (likely 120 to 270). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 55 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 (85th percentile), break-ins (83rd percentile), homicide (81st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 74.

In 2025-26: violent 2,203 per 100,000 (+5% vs five years earlier); property 7,508 per 100,000 (0% vs five years earlier); break-ins 973 per 100,000 (-9% vs five years earlier); theft 3,290 per 100,000 (-13% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 10th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Playford council area is 9.3% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 8.8% of occupied homes (2,500 public and 600 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 796 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 76.8 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 23.2% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, Afghanistan, Philippines. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 8.1% (confidence 84 of 100); social housing about 8% of homes; about 75.5 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 23.6% born overseas. Confidence falls with distance from the last published figure, and the map's Estimates toggle shows every year back to 1994-95.

South Australia publishes crime statistics by council area, not by suburb, so the figures shown for Andrews Farm are those of the Playford council area.

OffencesPer 100,000Count5-yr change
Violent2,2032,551+5%
Property7,5088,694-0%
Break-ins9731,127-9%
Theft3,2903,809-13%

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

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Questions

Is Andrews Farm safe?

South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Andrews Farm is in the Playford council area, which recorded 2,200 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 70% higher than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 72% higher than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Andrews Farm itself is roughly 9,900 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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