Burnside Heights crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria

Burnside Heights is a suburb in the Melton council area of Victoria (about 231,567 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 46 out of 100 (moderate), 199th 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 robbery (84th percentile), homicide (52nd percentile), theft (72nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 54.

In 2024-25: violent 824 per 100,000 (-10% vs five years earlier); property 4,049 per 100,000 (-1% vs five years earlier); break-ins 487 per 100,000 (-15% vs five years earlier); theft 2,398 per 100,000 (+1% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 49th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Melton council area is 6.5% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 0.9% of occupied homes (343 public and 147 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 560 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 29 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 37.5% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in India, Philippines, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 7.1% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 0.8% of homes; about 28.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 38.1% 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 Burnside Heights are those of the Melton council area.

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

Nearby suburbs

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