Ironbank crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia

Ironbank is a suburb in the Adelaide Hills council area of South Australia (about 42,875 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 15 out of 100 (very low), 355th of 362 councils nationally.

Modelled estimate, not police figures: Ironbank (537 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 8 of the offences recorded each year in the Adelaide Hills council area (likely 3 to 15), roughly 1,500 per 100,000 residents, including about 2 violent offences (likely 1 to 4). 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 (62nd percentile), robbery (13th percentile), sexual offences (10th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 13.

In 2025-26: violent 294 per 100,000 (-3% vs five years earlier); property 1,224 per 100,000 (-3% vs five years earlier); break-ins 210 per 100,000 (-31% vs five years earlier); theft 422 per 100,000 (-11% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 67th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Adelaide Hills council area is 3.4% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 0.6% of occupied homes (20 public and 70 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 25 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 6 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 17.4% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, Germany, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3% (confidence 82 of 100); social housing about 0.6% of homes; about 5.9 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 17.7% 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 Ironbank are those of the Adelaide Hills council area.

OffencesPer 100,000Count5-yr change
Violent294126-3%
Property1,224525-3%
Break-ins21090-31%
Theft422181-11%

How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.

Adelaide Hills council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Questions

Is Ironbank safe?

South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Ironbank is in the Adelaide Hills council area, which recorded 294 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 77% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 77% lower than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Ironbank itself is roughly 1,500 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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