Dandenong crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Dandenong is a suburb in the Greater Dandenong council area of Victoria (about 168,684 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 74 out of 100 (high), 49th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Dandenong (30,127 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 5,140 of the offences recorded each year in the Greater Dandenong council area (likely 2,550 to 8,460), roughly 17,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 690 violent offences (likely 420 to 960). 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 (62nd percentile), robbery (97th percentile), homicide (75th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 73.
In 2024-25: violent 1,661 per 100,000 (+24% vs five years earlier); property 7,716 per 100,000 (+29% vs five years earlier); break-ins 848 per 100,000 (+30% vs five years earlier); theft 4,388 per 100,000 (+35% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 12th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Greater Dandenong council area is 7.3% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.8% of occupied homes (1,682 public and 283 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 2,380 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 149.7 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 61.4% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in Vietnam, India, Cambodia. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 8.2% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 3.5% of homes; about 147.1 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 62.3% 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 Dandenong are those of the Greater Dandenong 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 | 1,661 | 2,801 | +24% |
| Property | 7,716 | 13,016 | +29% |
| Break-ins | 848 | 1,430 | +30% |
| Theft | 4,388 | 7,402 | +35% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Greater Dandenong council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3175: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Dandenong safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Dandenong is in the Greater Dandenong council area, which recorded 1,660 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 57% higher than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 36% higher than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Dandenong itself is roughly 17,000 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.
Police news near Dandenong
- Two teens stabbed in Cranbourne · Cranbourne, 7 Sept 2026 · 14 km away
Nearby suburbs
Bangholme · Dandenong North · Dandenong South · Keysborough · Noble Park · Noble Park North · Springvale
australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/vic/dandenong/ · Australian Crime Map