Buckingham crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
SA Police recorded 0 offences in Buckingham in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Tatiara council area.
Buckingham is a suburb in the Tatiara council area of South Australia (about 7,088 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 21 out of 100 (low), 330th 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 (97th percentile), theft (18th percentile), assault (7th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 15.
In 2025-26: violent 381 per 100,000 (+4% vs five years earlier); property 1,425 per 100,000 (+20% vs five years earlier); break-ins 212 per 100,000 (-17% vs five years earlier); theft 649 per 100,000 (+7% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 64th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Tatiara council area is 1.8% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.1% of occupied homes (32 public and 22 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 18 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 25.5 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 14% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in Philippines, Malaysia, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 1.7% (confidence 74 of 100); social housing about 1.9% of homes; about 25.1 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 14.3% 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 Buckingham in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Tatiara council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 381 | 27 | +4% |
| Property | 1,425 | 101 | +20% |
| Break-ins | 212 | 15 | -17% |
| Theft | 649 | 46 | +7% |
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Questions
Is Buckingham safe?
Police recorded 0 offences in Buckingham in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins. Buckingham is not ranked against other suburbs: with 40 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Tatiara council area as a whole recorded 381 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 71% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 70% 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 Buckingham?
In 2025-26 police recorded 0 offences in Buckingham, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins.
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