Burwood crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria

Burwood is a suburb in the Whitehorse council area of Victoria (about 185,256 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 42 out of 100 (moderate), 225th 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 break-ins (65th percentile), homicide (63rd percentile), robbery (61st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 38.

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 5.9% (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 Burwood are those of the Whitehorse council area.

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

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