Blanche Harbor crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia

SA Police recorded 1 offences in Blanche Harbor in 2025-26, including 1 violent offences and 0 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Port Augusta council area.

Blanche Harbor is a suburb in the Port Augusta council area of South Australia (about 14,469 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 82 out of 100 (very high), 20th 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 (95th percentile), break-ins (98th percentile), homicide (94th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 75.

In 2025-26: violent 8,508 per 100,000 (+105% vs five years earlier); property 18,529 per 100,000 (+75% vs five years earlier); break-ins 5,377 per 100,000 (+164% vs five years earlier); theft 5,495 per 100,000 (+36% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 3rd of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Port Augusta council area is 6.4% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 12.7% of occupied homes (594 public and 57 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 188 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 130 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 9.3% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, India, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5.5% (confidence 76 of 100); social housing about 11.5% of homes; about 127.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 9.4% 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: 1 offences were recorded in Blanche Harbor in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Port Augusta council area.

OffencesPer 100,000Count5-yr change
Violent8,5081,231+105%
Property18,5292,681+75%
Break-ins5,377778+164%
Theft5,495795+36%

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Questions

Is Blanche Harbor safe?

Police recorded 1 offences in Blanche Harbor in 2025-26, including 1 violent offences and 0 break-ins. Blanche Harbor is not ranked against other suburbs: with 32 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Port Augusta council area as a whole recorded 8,510 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, 6.6 times the South Australia rate (1,300) and 6.6 times 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 Blanche Harbor?

In 2025-26 police recorded 1 offences in Blanche Harbor, including 1 violent offences and 0 break-ins.

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