Meadows crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
SA Police recorded 20 offences in Meadows in 2025-26, including 5 violent offences and 3 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Mount Barker council area.
Meadows is a suburb in the Mount Barker council area of South Australia (about 45,111 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 18 out of 100 (very low), 343rd 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 homicide (40th percentile), assault (17th percentile), robbery (26th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 21.
In 2025-26: violent 514 per 100,000 (+39% vs five years earlier); property 1,581 per 100,000 (-9% vs five years earlier); break-ins 206 per 100,000 (-11% vs five years earlier); theft 745 per 100,000 (-4% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 50th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Mount Barker council area is 3.6% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.9% of occupied homes (312 public and 115 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 49 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 11.9 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 15.8% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, South Africa, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.1% (confidence 82 of 100); social housing about 2.7% of homes; about 11.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 16% 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: 20 offences were recorded in Meadows in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Mount Barker council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 514 | 232 | +39% |
| Property | 1,581 | 713 | -9% |
| Break-ins | 206 | 93 | -11% |
| Theft | 745 | 336 | -4% |
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Questions
Is Meadows safe?
Police recorded 20 offences in Meadows in 2025-26, including 5 violent offences and 3 break-ins. Meadows is not ranked against other suburbs: with 1,717 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Mount Barker council area as a whole recorded 514 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 60% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 60% 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 Meadows?
In 2025-26 police recorded 20 offences in Meadows, including 5 violent offences and 3 break-ins.
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