Boneo crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Boneo is a suburb in the Mornington Peninsula council area of Victoria (about 172,217 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 49 out of 100 (moderate), 182nd of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Boneo (314 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 20 of the offences recorded each year in the Mornington Peninsula council area (likely 7 to 37), roughly 6,500 per 100,000 residents, including about 1 violent offences (likely 0 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 break-ins (73rd percentile), homicide (69th percentile), theft (71st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 49.
In 2024-25: violent 801 per 100,000 (+17% vs five years earlier); property 4,293 per 100,000 (+16% vs five years earlier); break-ins 863 per 100,000 (+25% vs five years earlier); theft 2,147 per 100,000 (+25% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 50th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Mornington Peninsula council area is 3.3% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.5% of occupied homes (858 public and 108 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 431 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 25.4 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 18.7% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, Scotland. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.7% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 1.4% of homes; about 25 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 19% 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 Boneo are those of the Mornington Peninsula 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 | 801 | 1,379 | +17% |
| Property | 4,293 | 7,393 | +16% |
| Break-ins | 863 | 1,487 | +25% |
| Theft | 2,147 | 3,698 | +25% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Mornington Peninsula council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3939: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Boneo safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Boneo is in the Mornington Peninsula council area, which recorded 801 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 24% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 34% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Boneo itself is roughly 6,500 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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australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/vic/boneo/ · Australian Crime Map