Dunkeld crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Dunkeld is a suburb in the Southern Grampians council area of Victoria (about 16,483 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 51 out of 100 (moderate), 170th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Dunkeld (688 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 63 of the offences recorded each year in the Southern Grampians council area (likely 31 to 100), roughly 9,200 per 100,000 residents, including about 7 violent offences (likely 2 to 11). 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 homicide (84th percentile), assault (50th percentile), sexual offences (74th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 52.
In 2024-25: violent 1,256 per 100,000 (+26% vs five years earlier); property 3,149 per 100,000 (+9% vs five years earlier); break-ins 285 per 100,000 (-32% vs five years earlier); theft 1,474 per 100,000 (+3% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 27th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Southern Grampians council area is 3% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.2% of occupied homes (172 public and 45 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 44 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 26.9 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 8.3% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, India. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.3% (confidence 78 of 100); social housing about 2.9% of homes; about 26.4 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 8.4% 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 Dunkeld are those of the Southern Grampians 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 | 1,256 | 207 | +26% |
| Property | 3,149 | 519 | +9% |
| Break-ins | 285 | 47 | -32% |
| Theft | 1,474 | 243 | +3% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Southern Grampians council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3294: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Dunkeld safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Dunkeld is in the Southern Grampians council area, which recorded 1,260 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 19% higher than the Victoria rate (1,060) and close to the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Dunkeld itself is roughly 9,200 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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