Cottles Bridge crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria

Cottles Bridge is a suburb in the Nillumbik council area of Victoria (about 63,797 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 21 out of 100 (low), 329th 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 (53rd percentile), homicide (43rd percentile), sexual offences (21st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 22.

In 2024-25: violent 442 per 100,000 (+10% vs five years earlier); property 2,205 per 100,000 (+16% vs five years earlier); break-ins 342 per 100,000 (+18% vs five years earlier); theft 1,182 per 100,000 (+33% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 77th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Nillumbik council area is 3.5% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 0.5% of occupied homes (100 public and 14 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 79 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 12.5 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 16.8% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, Italy. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.8% (confidence 83 of 100); social housing about 0.5% of homes; about 12.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 17.1% 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 Cottles Bridge are those of the Nillumbik council area.

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

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