Kimba crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
Kimba is a suburb in the Kimba council area of South Australia (about 1,064 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 19 out of 100 (very low), 341st of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Kimba (608 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 12 of the offences recorded each year in the Kimba council area (likely 4 to 22), roughly 2,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 2 violent offences (likely 0 to 3). 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 robbery (58th percentile), break-ins (40th percentile), homicide (18th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 7.
In 2025-26: violent 376 per 100,000 (+298% vs five years earlier); property 1,880 per 100,000 (+230% vs five years earlier); break-ins 564 per 100,000 (+98% vs five years earlier); theft 752 per 100,000 (+296% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 65th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Kimba council area is 1.4% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.8% of occupied homes (0 public and 7 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 1 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 9.4 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 4.8% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, Germany, Nepal. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 1.8% (confidence 67 of 100); social housing about 1.7% of homes; about 9.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 4.9% 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 Kimba are those of the Kimba council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 376 | 4 | +298% |
| Property | 1,880 | 20 | +230% |
| Break-ins | 564 | 6 | +98% |
| Theft | 752 | 8 | +296% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Kimba council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Questions
Is Kimba safe?
South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Kimba is in the Kimba council area, which recorded 376 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 71% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 71% lower than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Kimba itself is roughly 2,000 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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