Carrum crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria

Carrum is a suburb in the Kingston council area of Victoria (about 168,061 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 51 out of 100 (moderate), 171st 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 (87th percentile), break-ins (61st percentile), theft (82nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 50.

In 2024-25: violent 854 per 100,000 (+9% vs five years earlier); property 5,103 per 100,000 (+19% vs five years earlier); break-ins 649 per 100,000 (+37% vs five years earlier); theft 2,893 per 100,000 (+14% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 46th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Kingston council area is 4.3% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2% of occupied homes (949 public and 257 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 549 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 34.3 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 33% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, India, China. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.7% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 1.8% of homes; about 33.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 33.5% 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 Carrum are those of the Kingston council area.

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

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