Caulfield South crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria

Caulfield South is a suburb in the Glen Eira council area of Victoria (about 163,025 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 37 out of 100 (low), 258th 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 (66th percentile), homicide (53rd percentile), break-ins (53rd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 35.

In 2024-25: violent 595 per 100,000 (+12% vs five years earlier); property 3,641 per 100,000 (+8% vs five years earlier); break-ins 615 per 100,000 (+18% vs five years earlier); theft 1,928 per 100,000 (+2% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 63rd of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Glen Eira council area is 4.2% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.2% of occupied homes (432 public and 255 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 565 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 37.3 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 38.2% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in China, India, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.7% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 1.1% of homes; about 36.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 38.8% 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 Caulfield South are those of the Glen Eira council area.

Glen Eira council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Nearby suburbs

Bentleigh · Bentleigh East · Carnegie · Caulfield · Caulfield Junction · Caulfield North · Elsternwick · Gardenvale · Glen Huntly · McKinnon · Murrumbeena · Ormond · Ripponlea

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