Glenburnie crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
Glenburnie is a suburb in the Grant council area of South Australia (about 9,223 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 26 out of 100 (low), 304th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Glenburnie (396 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 14 of the offences recorded each year in the Grant council area (likely 5 to 25), roughly 3,500 per 100,000 residents, including about 3 violent offences (likely 1 to 6). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 32 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 (36th percentile), break-ins (47th percentile), vehicle theft (65th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 24.
In 2025-26: violent 737 per 100,000 (+39% vs five years earlier); property 2,353 per 100,000 (+145% vs five years earlier); break-ins 499 per 100,000 (+77% vs five years earlier); theft 466 per 100,000 (+107% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 39th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Grant council area is 2.9% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 0.1% of occupied homes (0 public and 4 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 20 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 22.4 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 8.2% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, New Zealand, Netherlands. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 2.5% (confidence 74 of 100); social housing about 0.1% of homes; about 22 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 8.4% 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 Glenburnie are those of the Grant council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 737 | 68 | +39% |
| Property | 2,353 | 217 | +145% |
| Break-ins | 499 | 46 | +77% |
| Theft | 466 | 43 | +107% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Grant council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Questions
Is Glenburnie safe?
South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Glenburnie is in the Grant council area, which recorded 737 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 43% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 42% lower than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Glenburnie itself is roughly 3,500 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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