Ballast Head crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
SA Police recorded 0 offences in Ballast Head in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Kangaroo Island council area.
Ballast Head is a suburb in the Kangaroo Island council area of South Australia (about 5,212 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 25 out of 100 (low), 309th of 362 councils nationally.
The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by homicide (94th percentile), assault (19th percentile), robbery (13th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 27.
In 2025-26: violent 422 per 100,000 (-4% vs five years earlier); property 1,190 per 100,000 (-55% vs five years earlier); break-ins 192 per 100,000 (-68% vs five years earlier); theft 460 per 100,000 (-48% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 59th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Kangaroo Island council area is 3.5% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.6% of occupied homes (51 public and 18 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 4 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 7.9 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 16% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, New Zealand, Germany. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.1% (confidence 71 of 100); social housing about 3.2% of homes; about 7.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 16.3% 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 suburb-level counts: 0 offences were recorded in Ballast Head in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Kangaroo Island council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 422 | 22 | -4% |
| Property | 1,190 | 62 | -55% |
| Break-ins | 192 | 10 | -68% |
| Theft | 460 | 24 | -48% |
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Questions
Is Ballast Head safe?
Police recorded 0 offences in Ballast Head in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins. Ballast Head is not ranked against other suburbs: with 21 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Kangaroo Island council area as a whole recorded 422 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 67% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 67% lower than the national rate (1,280). 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.
What is the crime rate in Ballast Head?
In 2025-26 police recorded 0 offences in Ballast Head, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins.
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