Padthaway crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
Padthaway is a suburb in the Tatiara council area of South Australia (about 7,088 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 21 out of 100 (low), 330th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Padthaway (321 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 5 of the offences recorded each year in the Tatiara council area (likely 0 to 8), roughly 1,400 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 (97th percentile), theft (18th percentile), assault (7th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 15.
In 2025-26: violent 381 per 100,000 (+4% vs five years earlier); property 1,425 per 100,000 (+20% vs five years earlier); break-ins 212 per 100,000 (-17% vs five years earlier); theft 649 per 100,000 (+7% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 64th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Tatiara council area is 1.8% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.1% of occupied homes (32 public and 22 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 18 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 25.5 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 14% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in Philippines, Malaysia, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 1.7% (confidence 74 of 100); social housing about 1.9% of homes; about 25.1 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 14.3% 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 Padthaway are those of the Tatiara council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 381 | 27 | +4% |
| Property | 1,425 | 101 | +20% |
| Break-ins | 212 | 15 | -17% |
| Theft | 649 | 46 | +7% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Tatiara council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Questions
Is Padthaway safe?
South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Padthaway is in the Tatiara council area, which recorded 381 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 71% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 70% lower than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Padthaway itself is roughly 1,400 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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