Blackfellows Caves crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
SA Police recorded 4 offences in Blackfellows Caves in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 1 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Grant council area.
Blackfellows Caves is a suburb in the Grant council area of South Australia (about 9,223 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 26 out of 100 (low), 304th 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 assault (36th percentile), break-ins (47th percentile), vehicle theft (65th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 24.
In 2025-26: violent 737 per 100,000 (+39% vs five years earlier); property 2,353 per 100,000 (+145% vs five years earlier); break-ins 499 per 100,000 (+77% vs five years earlier); theft 466 per 100,000 (+107% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 39th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Grant council area is 2.9% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 0.1% of occupied homes (0 public and 4 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 20 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 22.4 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 8.2% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, New Zealand, Netherlands. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 2.5% (confidence 74 of 100); social housing about 0.1% of homes; about 22 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 8.4% 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: 4 offences were recorded in Blackfellows Caves in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Grant council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 737 | 68 | +39% |
| Property | 2,353 | 217 | +145% |
| Break-ins | 499 | 46 | +77% |
| Theft | 466 | 43 | +107% |
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Questions
Is Blackfellows Caves safe?
Police recorded 4 offences in Blackfellows Caves in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 1 break-ins. Blackfellows Caves is not ranked against other suburbs: with 72 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Grant council area as a whole recorded 737 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 43% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 42% 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 Blackfellows Caves?
In 2025-26 police recorded 4 offences in Blackfellows Caves, including 0 violent offences and 1 break-ins.
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