Two Wells crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
Two Wells is a suburb in the Adelaide Plains council area of South Australia (about 11,736 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 41 out of 100 (moderate), 238th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Two Wells (3,233 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 110 of the offences recorded each year in the Adelaide Plains council area (likely 56 to 190), roughly 3,500 per 100,000 residents, including about 26 violent offences (likely 13 to 42). 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 homicide (83rd percentile), assault (38th percentile), break-ins (52nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 36.
In 2025-26: violent 801 per 100,000 (+40% vs five years earlier); property 2,701 per 100,000 (+9% vs five years earlier); break-ins 673 per 100,000 (+46% vs five years earlier); theft 673 per 100,000 (-34% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 35th of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Adelaide Plains council area is 4.2% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 0.4% of occupied homes (9 public and 5 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 16 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 15.3 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 14.1% of residents were born overseas (South Australia 25.2%), most often in England, New Zealand, Scotland. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.7% (confidence 75 of 100); social housing about 0.4% of homes; about 15 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 14.3% 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 Two Wells are those of the Adelaide Plains council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 801 | 94 | +40% |
| Property | 2,701 | 317 | +9% |
| Break-ins | 673 | 79 | +46% |
| Theft | 673 | 79 | -34% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Adelaide Plains council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Questions
Is Two Wells safe?
South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Two Wells is in the Adelaide Plains council area, which recorded 801 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 38% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 37% lower than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Two Wells itself is roughly 3,500 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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