Avoca crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Avoca is a suburb in the Pyrenees council area of Victoria (about 7,957 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 38 out of 100 (low), 259th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Avoca (1,356 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 83 of the offences recorded each year in the Pyrenees council area (likely 41 to 140), roughly 6,100 per 100,000 residents, including about 10 violent offences (likely 5 to 17). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 44 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 break-ins (71st percentile), vehicle theft (82nd percentile), sexual offences (42nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 61.
In 2024-25: violent 754 per 100,000 (-32% vs five years earlier); property 3,821 per 100,000 (+16% vs five years earlier); break-ins 779 per 100,000 (+13% vs five years earlier); theft 1,709 per 100,000 (+33% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 56th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Pyrenees council area is 3.8% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 0.6% of occupied homes (18 public and 0 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 20 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 26.2 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 10.5% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, Netherlands. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.2% (confidence 73 of 100); social housing about 0.6% of homes; about 25.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 10.7% 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 Avoca are those of the Pyrenees 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 | 754 | 60 | -32% |
| Property | 3,821 | 304 | +16% |
| Break-ins | 779 | 62 | +13% |
| Theft | 1,709 | 136 | +33% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Pyrenees council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3467: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Avoca safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Avoca is in the Pyrenees council area, which recorded 754 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 29% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 38% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Avoca itself is roughly 6,100 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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australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/vic/avoca/ · Australian Crime Map