Poochera crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
SA Police recorded 0 offences in Poochera in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Streaky Bay council area.
Poochera is a suburb in the Streaky Bay council area of South Australia (about 2,292 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 24 out of 100 (low), 318th 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 (95th percentile), break-ins (28th percentile), robbery (25th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 20.
In 2025-26: violent 44 per 100,000 (-93% vs five years earlier); property 524 per 100,000 (-65% vs five years earlier); break-ins 44 per 100,000 (-91% vs five years earlier); theft 131 per 100,000 (-71% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 69th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Streaky Bay council area is 3.2% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.1% of occupied homes (17 public and 0 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 29 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 128.4 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 5.8% 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 3% (confidence 68 of 100); social housing about 1.9% of homes; about 126.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 5.9% 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 Poochera in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Streaky Bay council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 44 | 1 | -93% |
| Property | 524 | 12 | -65% |
| Break-ins | 44 | 1 | -91% |
| Theft | 131 | 3 | -71% |
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Questions
Is Poochera safe?
Police recorded 0 offences in Poochera in 2025-26, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins. Poochera is not ranked against other suburbs: with 67 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Streaky Bay council area as a whole recorded 44 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 97% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 97% 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 Poochera?
In 2025-26 police recorded 0 offences in Poochera, including 0 violent offences and 0 break-ins.
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