Finniss crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
Finniss is a suburb in the Alexandrina council area of South Australia (about 31,427 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 19 out of 100 (very low), 340th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Finniss (293 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 6 of the offences recorded each year in the Alexandrina council area (likely 1 to 10), roughly 2,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 1 violent offences (likely 0 to 2). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 21 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 (45th percentile), assault (16th percentile), break-ins (23rd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 24.
In 2025-26: violent 493 per 100,000 (+3% vs five years earlier); property 1,289 per 100,000 (-23% vs five years earlier); break-ins 270 per 100,000 (-16% vs five years earlier); theft 391 per 100,000 (-40% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 53rd of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Alexandrina council area is 4.5% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2% of occupied homes (110 public and 124 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 63 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 21.2 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 17.2% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, New Zealand, Scotland. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.9% (confidence 80 of 100); social housing about 1.8% of homes; about 20.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 17.5% 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 Finniss are those of the Alexandrina council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 493 | 155 | +3% |
| Property | 1,289 | 405 | -23% |
| Break-ins | 270 | 85 | -16% |
| Theft | 391 | 123 | -40% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Alexandrina council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Questions
Is Finniss safe?
South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Finniss is in the Alexandrina council area, which recorded 493 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 62% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 61% lower than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Finniss itself is roughly 2,000 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.
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