Midgee crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
SA Police recorded 2 offences in Midgee in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Franklin Harbour council area.
Midgee is a suburb in the Franklin Harbour council area of South Australia (about 1,367 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 21 out of 100 (low), 331st 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 robbery (44th percentile), assault (21st percentile), break-ins (30th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 15.
In 2025-26: violent 805 per 100,000 (+77% vs five years earlier); property 2,121 per 100,000 (+34% vs five years earlier); break-ins 658 per 100,000 (+45% vs five years earlier); theft 658 per 100,000 (-13% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 33rd of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Franklin Harbour council area is 3.2% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 4.1% of occupied homes (4 public and 16 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 2 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 15 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 7.7% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, New Zealand, South Africa. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 2.6% (confidence 67 of 100); social housing about 3.7% of homes; about 14.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 7.8% 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: 2 offences were recorded in Midgee in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Franklin Harbour council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 805 | 11 | +77% |
| Property | 2,121 | 29 | +34% |
| Break-ins | 658 | 9 | +45% |
| Theft | 658 | 9 | -13% |
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Questions
Is Midgee safe?
Police recorded 2 offences in Midgee in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins. Midgee is not ranked against other suburbs: with 21 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Franklin Harbour council area as a whole recorded 805 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 38% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 37% 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 Midgee?
In 2025-26 police recorded 2 offences in Midgee, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins.
Nearby suburbs
Cowell · Glynn · James · Lucky Bay · McGregor · Miltalie · Minbrie · Mitchellville · Playford · Port Gibbon · Warren · Wilton
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