Emeroo crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
SA Police recorded 0 offences in Emeroo in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Unincorporated SA council area.
Emeroo 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.
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 suburb-level counts: 0 offences were recorded in Emeroo in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole 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% |
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Questions
Is Emeroo safe?
Police recorded 0 offences in Emeroo in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins. Emeroo is not ranked against other suburbs because it has no matching Census population to work out a rate. The Unincorporated SA council area as a whole 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). 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 Emeroo?
In 2025-26 police recorded 0 offences in Emeroo, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins.
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