Garden Island crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia

SA Police recorded 5 offences in Garden Island 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.

Garden Island 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: 5 offences were recorded in Garden Island in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Unincorporated SA council area.

OffencesPer 100,000Count5-yr change
Violent13,129394+71%
Property18,960569+36%
Break-ins5,332160+60%
Theft4,132124-11%

Unincorporated SA council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Crime in postcode 5960: every suburb and council it covers.

Questions

Is Garden Island safe?

Police recorded 5 offences in Garden Island in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins. Garden Island is not ranked against other suburbs: with 4 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. 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 Garden Island?

In 2025-26 police recorded 5 offences in Garden Island, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins.

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