Clifton Hill crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Clifton Hill is a suburb in the Yarra council area of Victoria (about 101,356 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 73 out of 100 (high), 50th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Clifton Hill (6,606 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 500 of the offences recorded each year in the Yarra council area (likely 250 to 820), roughly 7,500 per 100,000 residents, including about 40 violent offences (likely 24 to 56). 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 assault (60th percentile), break-ins (90th percentile), robbery (96th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 77.
In 2024-25: violent 1,611 per 100,000 (+13% vs five years earlier); property 11,135 per 100,000 (+18% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,554 per 100,000 (+43% vs five years earlier); theft 6,738 per 100,000 (+22% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 13th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Yarra council area is 3.8% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 8.5% of occupied homes (3,024 public and 415 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 559 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 60.9 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 30.2% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, Vietnam. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.3% (confidence 84 of 100); social housing about 7.8% of homes; about 59.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 30.7% 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 Clifton Hill are those of the Yarra 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 | 1,611 | 1,633 | +13% |
| Property | 11,135 | 11,286 | +18% |
| Break-ins | 1,554 | 1,575 | +43% |
| Theft | 6,738 | 6,829 | +22% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Yarra council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3068: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Clifton Hill safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Clifton Hill is in the Yarra council area, which recorded 1,610 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 52% higher than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 32% higher than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Clifton Hill itself is roughly 7,500 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.
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