Durham Lead crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Durham Lead is a suburb in the Golden Plains council area of Victoria (about 26,620 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 26 out of 100 (low), 305th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Durham Lead (408 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 9 of the offences recorded each year in the Golden Plains council area (likely 3 to 17), roughly 2,300 per 100,000 residents, including about 1 violent offences (likely 0 to 2). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 26 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 (87th percentile), vehicle theft (56th percentile), sexual offences (30th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 26.
In 2024-25: violent 349 per 100,000 (0% vs five years earlier); property 2,025 per 100,000 (+29% vs five years earlier); break-ins 391 per 100,000 (+15% vs five years earlier); theft 958 per 100,000 (+44% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 79th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Golden Plains council area is 3.1% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 0.1% of occupied homes (0 public and 7 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 33 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 13.1 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 9.8% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, Netherlands. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.5% (confidence 80 of 100); social housing about 0.1% of homes; about 12.9 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 9.9% 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 Durham Lead are those of the Golden Plains 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 | 349 | 93 | +0% |
| Property | 2,025 | 539 | +29% |
| Break-ins | 391 | 104 | +15% |
| Theft | 958 | 255 | +44% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Golden Plains council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3352: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Durham Lead safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Durham Lead is in the Golden Plains council area, which recorded 349 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 67% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 71% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Durham Lead itself is roughly 2,300 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 Durham Lead
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