Mawson Lakes crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia

Mawson Lakes is a suburb in the Salisbury council area of South Australia (about 151,019 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 61 out of 100 (high), 120th of 362 councils nationally.

Modelled estimate, not police figures: Mawson Lakes (13,794 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 1,030 of the offences recorded each year in the Salisbury council area (likely 510 to 1,700), roughly 7,500 per 100,000 residents, including about 210 violent offences (likely 130 to 290). 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 assault (72nd percentile), robbery (80th percentile), theft (90th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 63.

In 2025-26: violent 1,521 per 100,000 (+15% vs five years earlier); property 5,647 per 100,000 (+3% vs five years earlier); break-ins 691 per 100,000 (+7% vs five years earlier); theft 2,459 per 100,000 (-19% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 14th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Salisbury council area is 7.4% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 6.4% of occupied homes (2,738 public and 604 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 810 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 54.6 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 35.6% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, India, Vietnam. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 6.5% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 5.8% of homes; about 53.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 36.2% 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 Mawson Lakes are those of the Salisbury council area.

OffencesPer 100,000Count5-yr change
Violent1,5212,297+15%
Property5,6478,528+3%
Break-ins6911,043+7%
Theft2,4593,714-19%

How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.

Salisbury council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Crime in postcode 5085: every suburb and council it covers.

Questions

Is Mawson Lakes safe?

South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Mawson Lakes is in the Salisbury council area, which recorded 1,520 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 17% higher than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 19% higher than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Mawson Lakes itself is roughly 7,500 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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