Coober Pedy crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
Coober Pedy is a suburb in the Unincorporated SA council area of South Australia (about 3,001 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 85 out of 100 (very high), 13th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Coober Pedy (1,566 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 390 of the offences recorded each year in the Unincorporated SA council area (likely 200 to 650), roughly 25,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 170 violent offences (likely 100 to 240). 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 assault (98th percentile), homicide (100th percentile), break-ins (99th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 82.
In 2025-26: violent 13,129 per 100,000 (+71% vs five years earlier); property 18,960 per 100,000 (+36% vs five years earlier); break-ins 5,332 per 100,000 (+60% vs five years earlier); theft 4,132 per 100,000 (-11% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 2nd of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Unincorporated SA council area is 5% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 18.5% of occupied homes (144 public and 42 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 55 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 181 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 10.5% 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 4.4% (confidence 69 of 100); social housing about 16.8% of homes; about 178 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 10.6% 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 Coober Pedy are those of the Unincorporated SA council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 13,129 | 394 | +71% |
| Property | 18,960 | 569 | +36% |
| Break-ins | 5,332 | 160 | +60% |
| Theft | 4,132 | 124 | -11% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Unincorporated SA council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Questions
Is Coober Pedy safe?
South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Coober Pedy is in the Unincorporated SA council area, which recorded 13,100 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, 10.1 times the South Australia rate (1,300) and 10.3 times the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Coober Pedy itself is roughly 25,000 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.
Police news near Coober Pedy
- Death at Coober Pedy not suspicious · Coober Pedy, 11 Sept 2026
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