Balwyn crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria

Balwyn is a suburb in the Boroondara council area of Victoria (about 178,601 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 36 out of 100 (low), 269th 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 break-ins (67th percentile), robbery (61st percentile), theft (69th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 36.

In 2024-25: violent 495 per 100,000 (+26% vs five years earlier); property 4,166 per 100,000 (+8% vs five years earlier); break-ins 859 per 100,000 (+49% vs five years earlier); theft 2,254 per 100,000 (+3% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 71st of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Boroondara council area is 4.3% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1% of occupied homes (408 public and 194 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 321 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 19 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 33.4% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in China, England, India. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.8% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 0.9% of homes; about 18.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 34% 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 Balwyn are those of the Boroondara council area.

Boroondara council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Nearby suburbs

Ashburton · Ashwood · Balwyn North · Camberwell · Canterbury · Deepdene · Hawthorn · Hawthorn East · Kew · Kew East · Mont Albert · Surrey Hills · Surrey Hills North

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