Port Augusta crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
Port Augusta is a suburb in the Port Augusta council area of South Australia (about 14,469 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 82 out of 100 (very high), 20th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Port Augusta (6,437 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 1,730 of the offences recorded each year in the Port Augusta council area (likely 860 to 2,840), roughly 27,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 520 violent offences (likely 320 to 720). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 55 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 assault (95th percentile), break-ins (98th percentile), homicide (94th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 75.
In 2025-26: violent 8,508 per 100,000 (+105% vs five years earlier); property 18,529 per 100,000 (+75% vs five years earlier); break-ins 5,377 per 100,000 (+164% vs five years earlier); theft 5,495 per 100,000 (+36% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 3rd of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Port Augusta council area is 6.4% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 12.7% of occupied homes (594 public and 57 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 188 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 130 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 9.3% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, India, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5.5% (confidence 76 of 100); social housing about 11.5% of homes; about 127.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 9.4% 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 Port Augusta are those of the Port Augusta council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 8,508 | 1,231 | +105% |
| Property | 18,529 | 2,681 | +75% |
| Break-ins | 5,377 | 778 | +164% |
| Theft | 5,495 | 795 | +36% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Port Augusta council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 5701: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Port Augusta safe?
South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Port Augusta is in the Port Augusta council area, which recorded 8,510 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, 6.6 times the South Australia rate (1,300) and 6.6 times the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Port Augusta itself is roughly 27,000 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.
Nearby suburbs
Blanche Harbor · Commissariat Point · Copley · Davenport · Gillen · Jenkins · Miranda · Mundallio · Port Augusta · Port Augusta West · Port Paterson · Stirling North · Wami Kata · Winninowie
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