Port Pirie West crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
Port Pirie West is a suburb in the Port Pirie council area of South Australia (about 17,664 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 68 out of 100 (high), 77th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Port Pirie West (2,556 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 240 of the offences recorded each year in the Port Pirie council area (likely 120 to 390), roughly 9,400 per 100,000 residents, including about 66 violent offences (likely 40 to 92). 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 (85th percentile), break-ins (85th percentile), homicide (83rd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 54.
In 2025-26: violent 2,349 per 100,000 (+66% vs five years earlier); property 5,763 per 100,000 (+45% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,059 per 100,000 (+4% vs five years earlier); theft 1,834 per 100,000 (+15% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 8th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Port Pirie council area is 7.1% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 8.9% of occupied homes (573 public and 66 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 140 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 79.3 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 8.3% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, New Zealand, Philippines. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 6.2% (confidence 77 of 100); social housing about 8.1% of homes; about 78 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 8.4% 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 Pirie West are those of the Port Pirie council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 2,349 | 415 | +66% |
| Property | 5,763 | 1,018 | +45% |
| Break-ins | 1,059 | 187 | +4% |
| Theft | 1,834 | 324 | +15% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Port Pirie council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Questions
Is Port Pirie West safe?
South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Port Pirie West is in the Port Pirie council area, which recorded 2,350 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 81% higher than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 83% higher than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Port Pirie West itself is roughly 9,400 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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