Port Hughes crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
Port Hughes is a suburb in the Copper Coast council area of South Australia (about 16,601 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 40 out of 100 (low), 246th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Port Hughes (647 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 26 of the offences recorded each year in the Copper Coast council area (likely 10 to 47), roughly 4,100 per 100,000 residents, including about 6 violent offences (likely 2 to 11). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 46 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 (53rd percentile), break-ins (71st percentile), homicide (57th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 52.
In 2025-26: violent 940 per 100,000 (+1% vs five years earlier); property 2,765 per 100,000 (-13% vs five years earlier); break-ins 608 per 100,000 (-27% vs five years earlier); theft 988 per 100,000 (-13% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 27th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Copper Coast council area is 7.2% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 4.1% of occupied homes (207 public and 47 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 28 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 17.9 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 10.3% 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 6.4% (confidence 76 of 100); social housing about 3.7% of homes; about 17.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 10.5% 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 Hughes are those of the Copper Coast council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 940 | 156 | +1% |
| Property | 2,765 | 459 | -13% |
| Break-ins | 608 | 101 | -27% |
| Theft | 988 | 164 | -13% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Copper Coast council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Questions
Is Port Hughes safe?
South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Port Hughes is in the Copper Coast council area, which recorded 940 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 28% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 27% lower than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Port Hughes itself is roughly 4,100 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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