Kangaroo Inn crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
SA Police recorded 0 offences in Kangaroo Inn in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Wattle Range council area.
Kangaroo Inn is a suburb in the Wattle Range council area of South Australia (about 12,378 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 30 out of 100 (low), 290th 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 homicide (92nd percentile), break-ins (42nd percentile), assault (22nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 38.
In 2025-26: violent 428 per 100,000 (-20% vs five years earlier); property 1,656 per 100,000 (+1% vs five years earlier); break-ins 396 per 100,000 (+17% vs five years earlier); theft 509 per 100,000 (-14% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 58th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Wattle Range council area is 4.2% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.5% of occupied homes (115 public and 51 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 19 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 15.6 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 10% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, New Zealand, Philippines. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.6% (confidence 76 of 100); social housing about 3.2% of homes; about 15.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 10.1% 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: 0 offences were recorded in Kangaroo Inn in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Wattle Range council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 428 | 53 | -20% |
| Property | 1,656 | 205 | +1% |
| Break-ins | 396 | 49 | +17% |
| Theft | 509 | 63 | -14% |
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Questions
Is Kangaroo Inn safe?
Police recorded 0 offences in Kangaroo Inn in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins. Kangaroo Inn is not ranked against other suburbs because it has no matching Census population to work out a rate. The Wattle Range council area as a whole recorded 428 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 67% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 67% lower than 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 Kangaroo Inn?
In 2025-26 police recorded 0 offences in Kangaroo Inn, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins.
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