Dennington crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Dennington is a suburb in the Warrnambool council area of Victoria (about 36,255 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 48 out of 100 (moderate), 184th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Dennington (1,994 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 210 of the offences recorded each year in the Warrnambool council area (likely 100 to 340), roughly 10,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 20 violent offences (likely 10 to 33). 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 (51st percentile), sexual offences (73rd percentile), theft (73rd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 67.
In 2024-25: violent 1,420 per 100,000 (+10% vs five years earlier); property 4,353 per 100,000 (+12% vs five years earlier); break-ins 414 per 100,000 (-24% vs five years earlier); theft 2,510 per 100,000 (+50% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 20th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Warrnambool council area is 3.1% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 5% of occupied homes (567 public and 127 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 185 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 52.2 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 10.2% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, China. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.5% (confidence 81 of 100); social housing about 4.6% of homes; about 51.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 10.3% 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 Dennington are those of the Warrnambool 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 | 1,420 | 515 | +10% |
| Property | 4,353 | 1,578 | +12% |
| Break-ins | 414 | 150 | -24% |
| Theft | 2,510 | 910 | +50% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Warrnambool council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3280: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Dennington safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Dennington is in the Warrnambool council area, which recorded 1,420 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 34% higher than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 17% higher than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Dennington itself is roughly 10,000 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.
Nearby suburbs
australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/vic/dennington/ · Australian Crime Map