Port Lincoln crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
Port Lincoln is a suburb in the Port Lincoln council area of South Australia (about 15,065 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 67 out of 100 (high), 84th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Port Lincoln (14,458 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 1,800 of the offences recorded each year in the Port Lincoln council area (likely 890 to 2,970), roughly 12,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 380 violent offences (likely 230 to 530). 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 (88th percentile), break-ins (92nd percentile), robbery (87th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 68.
In 2025-26: violent 2,821 per 100,000 (+57% vs five years earlier); property 10,096 per 100,000 (+63% vs five years earlier); break-ins 2,137 per 100,000 (+71% vs five years earlier); theft 3,365 per 100,000 (+56% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 7th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Port Lincoln council area is 4.6% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 9% of occupied homes (471 public and 46 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 80 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 53.4 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 9.5% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, Philippines, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.9% (confidence 77 of 100); social housing about 8.2% of homes; about 52.5 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 9.6% 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 Port Lincoln are those of the Port Lincoln council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 2,821 | 425 | +57% |
| Property | 10,096 | 1,521 | +63% |
| Break-ins | 2,137 | 322 | +71% |
| Theft | 3,365 | 507 | +56% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Port Lincoln council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 5607: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Port Lincoln safe?
South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Port Lincoln is in the Port Lincoln council area, which recorded 2,820 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, 2.2 times the South Australia rate (1,300) and 2.2 times the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Port Lincoln itself is roughly 12,000 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.
Police news near Port Lincoln
- Arrest after Port Lincoln break-in and robbery · Port Lincoln, 26 Sept 2026
Nearby suburbs
australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/sa/port-lincoln-5607/ · Australian Crime Map