Tumby Bay crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
SA Police recorded 53 offences in Tumby Bay in 2025-26, including 10 violent offences and 6 break-ins. The rates and Crime Score below are for the whole Tumby Bay council area.
Tumby Bay is a suburb in the Tumby Bay council area of South Australia (about 2,963 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 22 out of 100 (low), 326th of 362 councils nationally.
The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by homicide (93rd percentile), break-ins (21st percentile), property damage (24th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 16.
In 2025-26: violent 506 per 100,000 (+62% vs five years earlier); property 1,924 per 100,000 (+113% vs five years earlier); break-ins 337 per 100,000 (-3% vs five years earlier); theft 371 per 100,000 (+7% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 52nd of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Tumby Bay council area is 2.5% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.4% of occupied homes (10 public and 18 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 5 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 17.3 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 5.9% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, New Zealand, United States. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 2.2% (confidence 69 of 100); social housing about 2.2% of homes; about 17 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 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 suburb-level counts: 53 offences were recorded in Tumby Bay in 2025-26. The rates and Crime Score above are for the whole Tumby Bay council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 506 | 15 | +62% |
| Property | 1,924 | 57 | +113% |
| Break-ins | 337 | 10 | -3% |
| Theft | 371 | 11 | +7% |
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Questions
Is Tumby Bay safe?
Police recorded 53 offences in Tumby Bay in 2025-26, including 10 violent offences and 6 break-ins. Tumby Bay is not ranked against other suburbs: with 1,781 residents a handful of incidents would move its rate a lot. The Tumby Bay council area as a whole recorded 506 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 61% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 60% lower than the national rate (1,280). 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.
What is the crime rate in Tumby Bay?
In 2025-26 police recorded 53 offences in Tumby Bay, including 10 violent offences and 6 break-ins.
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