Kapinnie crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
SA Police recorded 0 offences in Kapinnie in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Lower Eyre council area.
Kapinnie is a suburb in the Lower Eyre council area of South Australia (about 6,268 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 16 out of 100 (very low), 348th 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 (20th percentile), break-ins (26th percentile), homicide (18th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 10.
In 2025-26: violent 526 per 100,000 (+52% vs five years earlier); property 1,308 per 100,000 (+28% vs five years earlier); break-ins 335 per 100,000 (+13% vs five years earlier); theft 463 per 100,000 (+75% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 49th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Lower Eyre council area is 2.9% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.2% of occupied homes (15 public and 10 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 18 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 29.6 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 7% 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 2.4% (confidence 72 of 100); social housing about 1.1% of homes; about 29.1 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 7.1% 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 Kapinnie in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Lower Eyre council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 526 | 33 | +52% |
| Property | 1,308 | 82 | +28% |
| Break-ins | 335 | 21 | +13% |
| Theft | 463 | 29 | +75% |
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Questions
Is Kapinnie safe?
Police recorded 0 offences in Kapinnie in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins. Kapinnie is not ranked against other suburbs: with 42 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Lower Eyre council area as a whole recorded 526 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 59% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 59% 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 Kapinnie?
In 2025-26 police recorded 0 offences in Kapinnie, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins.
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