Burnside crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Burnside is a suburb in the Melton council area of Victoria (about 231,567 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 47 out of 100 (moderate), 200th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Burnside (5,800 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 320 of the offences recorded each year in the Melton council area (likely 160 to 520), roughly 5,400 per 100,000 residents, including about 33 violent offences (likely 20 to 46). 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 robbery (87th percentile), homicide (53rd percentile), theft (74th 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 7.3% (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 are those of the Melton 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 | 824 | 1,909 | -10% |
| Property | 4,049 | 9,375 | -1% |
| Break-ins | 487 | 1,127 | -15% |
| Theft | 2,398 | 5,552 | +1% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Melton council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3023: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Burnside safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Burnside is in the Melton council area, which recorded 824 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 22% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 32% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Burnside 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.
Nearby suburbs
Brookfield · Burnside Heights · Cairnlea · Calder Park · Caroline Springs · Deer Park · Delahey · Diggers Rest · Exford · Eynesbury · Hillside · Kurunjang · Melton · Melton South · Melton West · Plumpton · Plumpton · Ravenhall · Rockbank · Sydenham · Taylors Hill · Toolern Vale
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