Streaky Bay crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
Streaky Bay is a suburb in the Streaky Bay council area of South Australia (about 2,292 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 24 out of 100 (low), 318th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Streaky Bay (1,436 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 23 of the offences recorded each year in the Streaky Bay council area (likely 8 to 42), roughly 1,600 per 100,000 residents, including about 5 violent offences (likely 2 to 9). 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 homicide (95th percentile), break-ins (28th percentile), robbery (25th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 20.
In 2025-26: violent 44 per 100,000 (-93% vs five years earlier); property 524 per 100,000 (-65% vs five years earlier); break-ins 44 per 100,000 (-91% vs five years earlier); theft 131 per 100,000 (-71% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 69th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Streaky Bay council area is 3.2% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.1% of occupied homes (17 public and 0 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 29 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 128.4 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 5.8% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, New Zealand, Germany. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3% (confidence 68 of 100); social housing about 1.9% of homes; about 126.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 5.9% 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 Streaky Bay are those of the Streaky Bay council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 44 | 1 | -93% |
| Property | 524 | 12 | -65% |
| Break-ins | 44 | 1 | -91% |
| Theft | 131 | 3 | -71% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Streaky Bay council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Questions
Is Streaky Bay safe?
South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Streaky Bay is in the Streaky Bay council area, which recorded 44 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 97% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 97% lower than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Streaky Bay itself is roughly 1,600 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
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