Apsley crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Apsley is a suburb in the West Wimmera council area of Victoria (about 3,915 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 21 out of 100 (low), 329th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Apsley (329 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 15 of the offences recorded each year in the West Wimmera council area (likely 5 to 27), roughly 4,600 per 100,000 residents, including about 2 violent offences (likely 1 to 3). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 26 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 assault (29th percentile), weapons (72nd percentile), theft (34th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 39.
In 2024-25: violent 460 per 100,000 (-58% vs five years earlier); property 2,069 per 100,000 (+6% vs five years earlier); break-ins 281 per 100,000 (-41% vs five years earlier); theft 996 per 100,000 (+8% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 76th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the West Wimmera council area is 3% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.5% of occupied homes (20 public and 4 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 6 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 15.3 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 7.5% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, Philippines. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.5% (confidence 70 of 100); social housing about 1.3% of homes; about 15 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 7.6% born overseas. Confidence falls with distance from the last published figure, and the map's Estimates toggle shows every year back to 1994-95.
Victoria publishes crime statistics by council area, not by suburb, so the figures shown for Apsley are those of the West Wimmera council area.
Figures are for 2024-25, the latest year Victoria has published; some other states have released 2025-26.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 460 | 18 | -58% |
| Property | 2,069 | 81 | +6% |
| Break-ins | 281 | 11 | -41% |
| Theft | 996 | 39 | +8% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
West Wimmera council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3319: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Apsley safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Apsley is in the West Wimmera council area, which recorded 460 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 57% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 62% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Apsley itself is roughly 4,600 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.
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