Penrice crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
Penrice is a suburb in the Barossa council area of South Australia (about 26,817 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 15 out of 100 (very low), 353rd of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Penrice (486 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 19 of the offences recorded each year in the Barossa council area (likely 7 to 33), roughly 3,800 per 100,000 residents, including about 4 violent offences (likely 1 to 6). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 32 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 break-ins (20th percentile), assault (13th percentile), homicide (18th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 26.
In 2025-26: violent 395 per 100,000 (0% vs five years earlier); property 1,342 per 100,000 (-34% vs five years earlier); break-ins 224 per 100,000 (-23% vs five years earlier); theft 343 per 100,000 (-64% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 62nd of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Barossa council area is 3.3% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2% of occupied homes (94 public and 104 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 46 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 17.7 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 12.4% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, New Zealand, Germany. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 2.9% (confidence 80 of 100); social housing about 1.9% of homes; about 17.4 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 12.6% 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 Penrice are those of the Barossa council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 395 | 106 | +0% |
| Property | 1,342 | 360 | -34% |
| Break-ins | 224 | 60 | -23% |
| Theft | 343 | 92 | -64% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Barossa council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Questions
Is Penrice safe?
South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Penrice is in the Barossa council area, which recorded 395 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 70% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 69% lower than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Penrice itself is roughly 3,800 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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