Stanley Flat crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
Stanley Flat is a suburb in the Clare and Gilbert Valleys council area of South Australia (about 9,467 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 24 out of 100 (low), 310th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Stanley Flat (401 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 6 of the offences recorded each year in the Clare and Gilbert Valleys council area (likely 1 to 9), roughly 1,400 per 100,000 residents, including about 1 violent offences (likely 0 to 2). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 21 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 homicide (92nd percentile), robbery (24th percentile), assault (12th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 23.
In 2025-26: violent 549 per 100,000 (+20% vs five years earlier); property 1,489 per 100,000 (-28% vs five years earlier); break-ins 264 per 100,000 (-55% vs five years earlier); theft 444 per 100,000 (-39% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 48th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Clare and Gilbert Valleys council area is 3.2% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.8% of occupied homes (99 public and 42 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 9 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 9.6 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 10.8% 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 2.8% (confidence 75 of 100); social housing about 3.5% of homes; about 9.4 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 11% 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 Stanley Flat are those of the Clare and Gilbert Valleys council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 549 | 52 | +20% |
| Property | 1,489 | 141 | -28% |
| Break-ins | 264 | 25 | -55% |
| Theft | 444 | 42 | -39% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Clare and Gilbert Valleys council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Questions
Is Stanley Flat safe?
South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Stanley Flat is in the Clare and Gilbert Valleys council area, which recorded 549 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 58% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 57% lower than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Stanley Flat itself is roughly 1,400 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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