Kingscote crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
Kingscote is a suburb in the Kangaroo Island council area of South Australia (about 5,212 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 25 out of 100 (low), 309th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Kingscote (1,962 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 40 of the offences recorded each year in the Kangaroo Island council area (likely 20 to 67), roughly 2,100 per 100,000 residents, including about 11 violent offences (likely 6 to 18). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 55 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 (94th percentile), assault (19th percentile), robbery (13th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 27.
In 2025-26: violent 422 per 100,000 (-4% vs five years earlier); property 1,190 per 100,000 (-55% vs five years earlier); break-ins 192 per 100,000 (-68% vs five years earlier); theft 460 per 100,000 (-48% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 59th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Kangaroo Island council area is 3.5% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.6% of occupied homes (51 public and 18 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 4 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 7.9 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 16% 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 3.1% (confidence 71 of 100); social housing about 3.2% of homes; about 7.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 16.3% 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 Kingscote are those of the Kangaroo Island council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 422 | 22 | -4% |
| Property | 1,190 | 62 | -55% |
| Break-ins | 192 | 10 | -68% |
| Theft | 460 | 24 | -48% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Kangaroo Island council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Questions
Is Kingscote safe?
South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Kingscote is in the Kangaroo Island council area, which recorded 422 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). A modelled estimate for Kingscote itself is roughly 2,100 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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