Hindmarsh Valley crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
Hindmarsh Valley is a suburb in the Victor Harbor council area of South Australia (about 17,457 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 28 out of 100 (low), 298th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Hindmarsh Valley (648 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 17 of the offences recorded each year in the Victor Harbor council area (likely 6 to 30), roughly 2,600 per 100,000 residents, including about 4 violent offences (likely 1 to 7). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 46 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 (75th percentile), assault (30th percentile), break-ins (32nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 33.
In 2025-26: violent 613 per 100,000 (-5% vs five years earlier); property 2,039 per 100,000 (+28% vs five years earlier); break-ins 493 per 100,000 (+84% vs five years earlier); theft 716 per 100,000 (-1% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 44th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Victor Harbor council area is 5.4% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2% of occupied homes (48 public and 92 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 21 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 12.5 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 20.3% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, Scotland, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.7% (confidence 76 of 100); social housing about 1.8% of homes; about 12.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 20.6% 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 Hindmarsh Valley are those of the Victor Harbor council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 613 | 107 | -5% |
| Property | 2,039 | 356 | +28% |
| Break-ins | 493 | 86 | +84% |
| Theft | 716 | 125 | -1% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Victor Harbor council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Questions
Is Hindmarsh Valley safe?
South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Hindmarsh Valley is in the Victor Harbor council area, which recorded 613 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 53% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 52% lower than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Hindmarsh Valley itself is roughly 2,600 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.
Nearby suburbs
Back Valley · Encounter Bay · Hayborough · Hindmarsh Tiers · Inman Valley · Lower Inman Valley · McCracken · Mount Jagged · Victor Harbor · Waitpinga
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