Lipson crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
Lipson is a suburb in the Tumby Bay council area of South Australia (about 2,963 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 22 out of 100 (low), 326th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Lipson (211 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 4 of the offences recorded each year in the Tumby Bay council area (likely 0 to 7), roughly 1,800 per 100,000 residents, including about 1 violent offences (likely 0 to 2). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 21 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 (93rd percentile), break-ins (21st percentile), property damage (24th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 16.
In 2025-26: violent 506 per 100,000 (+62% vs five years earlier); property 1,924 per 100,000 (+113% vs five years earlier); break-ins 337 per 100,000 (-3% vs five years earlier); theft 371 per 100,000 (+7% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 52nd of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Tumby Bay council area is 2.5% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.4% of occupied homes (10 public and 18 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 5 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 17.3 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 5.9% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, New Zealand, United States. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 2.2% (confidence 69 of 100); social housing about 2.2% of homes; about 17 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 6% 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 Lipson are those of the Tumby Bay council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 506 | 15 | +62% |
| Property | 1,924 | 57 | +113% |
| Break-ins | 337 | 10 | -3% |
| Theft | 371 | 11 | +7% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Tumby Bay council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Questions
Is Lipson safe?
South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Lipson is in the Tumby Bay council area, which recorded 506 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 61% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 60% lower than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Lipson itself is roughly 1,800 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.
Nearby suburbs
Brooker · Butler · Cockaleechie · Dixson · Hutchison · Koppio · Moody · Nicholls · Port Neill · Stokes · Tumby Bay · Ungarra · Yallunda Flat · Yaranyacka
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