Parham crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
SA Police recorded 12 offences in Parham in 2025-26, including 4 violent offences and 1 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Adelaide Plains council area.
Parham is a suburb in the Adelaide Plains council area of South Australia (about 11,736 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 41 out of 100 (moderate), 238th 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 (83rd percentile), assault (38th percentile), break-ins (52nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 36.
In 2025-26: violent 801 per 100,000 (+40% vs five years earlier); property 2,701 per 100,000 (+9% vs five years earlier); break-ins 673 per 100,000 (+46% vs five years earlier); theft 673 per 100,000 (-34% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 35th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Adelaide Plains council area is 4.2% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 0.4% of occupied homes (9 public and 5 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 16 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 15.3 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 14.1% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, New Zealand, Scotland. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.7% (confidence 75 of 100); social housing about 0.4% of homes; about 15 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 suburb-level counts: 12 offences were recorded in Parham in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Adelaide Plains council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 801 | 94 | +40% |
| Property | 2,701 | 317 | +9% |
| Break-ins | 673 | 79 | +46% |
| Theft | 673 | 79 | -34% |
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Questions
Is Parham safe?
Police recorded 12 offences in Parham in 2025-26, including 4 violent offences and 1 break-ins. Parham is not ranked against other suburbs: with 185 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Adelaide Plains council area as a whole recorded 801 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 Parham?
In 2025-26 police recorded 12 offences in Parham, including 4 violent offences and 1 break-ins.
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