Box Hill South crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Box Hill South is a suburb in the Whitehorse council area of Victoria (about 185,256 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 44 out of 100 (moderate), 223rd of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Box Hill South (8,491 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 460 of the offences recorded each year in the Whitehorse council area (likely 230 to 750), roughly 5,400 per 100,000 residents, including about 39 violent offences (likely 24 to 55). 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 (66th percentile), homicide (64th percentile), robbery (66th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 39.
In 2024-25: violent 589 per 100,000 (+4% vs five years earlier); property 4,660 per 100,000 (+29% vs five years earlier); break-ins 770 per 100,000 (+19% vs five years earlier); theft 2,627 per 100,000 (+34% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 64th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Whitehorse council area is 5.4% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.2% of occupied homes (1,058 public and 345 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 1,233 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 71.6 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 42.9% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in China, India, Malaysia. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 6% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 2% of homes; about 70.4 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 43.6% 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 Box Hill South are those of the Whitehorse 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 | 589 | 1,091 | +4% |
| Property | 4,660 | 8,633 | +29% |
| Break-ins | 770 | 1,426 | +19% |
| Theft | 2,627 | 4,866 | +34% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Whitehorse council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3128: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Box Hill South safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Box Hill South is in the Whitehorse council area, which recorded 589 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 44% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 52% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Box Hill South itself is roughly 5,400 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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