Buninyong crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria

Buninyong is a suburb in the Ballarat council area of Victoria (about 122,661 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 66 out of 100 (high), 89th 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 homicide (77th percentile), sexual offences (75th percentile), break-ins (74th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 70.

In 2024-25: violent 1,251 per 100,000 (+20% vs five years earlier); property 6,691 per 100,000 (+11% vs five years earlier); break-ins 826 per 100,000 (+5% vs five years earlier); theft 3,685 per 100,000 (+17% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 28th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Ballarat council area is 4.7% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.9% of occupied homes (1,393 public and 338 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 632 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 54.6 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 11.9% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, India, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5.2% (confidence 84 of 100); social housing about 3.6% of homes; about 53.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 12.1% 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 Buninyong are those of the Ballarat council area.

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

Nearby suburbs

Bakery Hill · Ballarat East · Ballarat North · Black Hill · Canadian · Delacombe · Eureka · Lake Gardens · Lucas · Mitchell Park · Mount Pleasant · Newington · Redan · Sebastopol · Wendouree · Wendouree Village

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