Waikerie crime rate and Crime Score · South Australia
Waikerie is a suburb in the Loxton Waikerie council area of South Australia (about 11,971 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 35 out of 100 (low), 272nd of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Waikerie (2,681 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 93 of the offences recorded each year in the Loxton Waikerie council area (likely 46 to 150), roughly 3,500 per 100,000 residents, including about 22 violent offences (likely 11 to 36). 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 (67th percentile), assault (38th percentile), break-ins (51st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 39.
In 2025-26: violent 827 per 100,000 (+20% vs five years earlier); property 2,306 per 100,000 (+11% vs five years earlier); break-ins 560 per 100,000 (+31% vs five years earlier); theft 718 per 100,000 (-13% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 32nd of 69 South Australia councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Loxton Waikerie council area is 3.2% (South Australia 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 4% of occupied homes (132 public and 53 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; South Australia 5.6%). An estimated 20 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 16.7 per 10,000 residents (South Australia 41.7), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 9% 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 76 of 100); social housing about 3.6% of homes; about 16.5 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 9.2% 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 Waikerie are those of the Loxton Waikerie council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 827 | 99 | +20% |
| Property | 2,306 | 276 | +11% |
| Break-ins | 560 | 67 | +31% |
| Theft | 718 | 86 | -13% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Loxton Waikerie council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Questions
Is Waikerie safe?
South Australia publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Waikerie is in the Loxton Waikerie council area, which recorded 827 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 36% lower than the South Australia rate (1,300) and about 35% lower than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Waikerie 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.
Police news near Waikerie
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