East Sale crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
East Sale is a suburb in the Wellington council area of Victoria (about 46,551 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 69 out of 100 (high), 72nd of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: East Sale (210 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 40 of the offences recorded each year in the Wellington council area (likely 20 to 66), roughly 19,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 4 violent offences (likely 1 to 7). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 31 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 (67th percentile), homicide (87th percentile), sexual offences (86th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 65.
In 2024-25: violent 1,914 per 100,000 (+15% vs five years earlier); property 5,065 per 100,000 (+26% vs five years earlier); break-ins 754 per 100,000 (+1% vs five years earlier); theft 2,552 per 100,000 (+33% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 8th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Wellington council area is 4.7% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.6% of occupied homes (379 public and 79 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 126 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 27.6 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 12% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, Philippines. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5.3% (confidence 82 of 100); social housing about 2.4% of homes; about 27.1 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 12.2% 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 East Sale are those of the Wellington 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 | 1,914 | 891 | +15% |
| Property | 5,065 | 2,358 | +26% |
| Break-ins | 754 | 351 | +1% |
| Theft | 2,552 | 1,188 | +33% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Wellington council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3852: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is East Sale safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. East Sale is in the Wellington council area, which recorded 1,910 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 81% higher than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 57% higher than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for East Sale itself is roughly 19,000 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 East Sale
- Nine people arrested as part of investigation into Sale assault · Sale, 10 Sept 2026 · 6 km away
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