Burra crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
Burra is a suburb in the Goyder council area of South Australia (about 4,141 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 38 out of 100 (low), 257th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Burra (1,112 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 32 of the offences recorded each year in the Goyder council area (likely 16 to 53), roughly 2,900 per 100,000 residents, including about 9 violent offences (likely 5 to 16). 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 homicide (89th percentile), assault (47th percentile), break-ins (45th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 27.
In 2025-26: violent 990 per 100,000 (+105% vs five years earlier); property 1,908 per 100,000 (-19% vs five years earlier); break-ins 555 per 100,000 (+4% vs five years earlier); theft 411 per 100,000 (-56% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 25th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Goyder council area is 5.3% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.7% of occupied homes (15 public and 14 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 19 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 45.8 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 11% 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 4.5% (confidence 70 of 100); social housing about 1.6% of homes; about 45 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 11.2% 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 Burra are those of the Goyder council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 990 | 41 | +105% |
| Property | 1,908 | 79 | -19% |
| Break-ins | 555 | 23 | +4% |
| Theft | 411 | 17 | -56% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Goyder council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Questions
Is Burra safe?
South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Burra is in the Goyder council area, which recorded 990 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 24% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 23% lower than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Burra itself is roughly 2,900 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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