Petersville crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
SA Police recorded 0 offences in Petersville in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Yorke Peninsula council area.
Petersville is a suburb in the Yorke Peninsula council area of South Australia (about 12,242 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 24 out of 100 (low), 313th 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 (66th percentile), assault (20th percentile), break-ins (29th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 26.
In 2025-26: violent 457 per 100,000 (-7% vs five years earlier); property 1,315 per 100,000 (-15% vs five years earlier); break-ins 253 per 100,000 (-30% vs five years earlier); theft 400 per 100,000 (-15% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 55th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Yorke Peninsula council area is 4.7% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.1% of occupied homes (104 public and 51 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 17 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 14.3 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 9.9% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, Germany, Scotland. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.1% (confidence 75 of 100); social housing about 2.8% of homes; about 14 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 10% 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: 0 offences were recorded in Petersville in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Yorke Peninsula council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 457 | 56 | -7% |
| Property | 1,315 | 161 | -15% |
| Break-ins | 253 | 31 | -30% |
| Theft | 400 | 49 | -15% |
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Questions
Is Petersville safe?
Police recorded 0 offences in Petersville in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins. Petersville is not ranked against other suburbs: with 75 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Yorke Peninsula council area as a whole recorded 457 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 65% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 64% 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 Petersville?
In 2025-26 police recorded 0 offences in Petersville, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins.
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