Footscray crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria

Footscray is a suburb in the Maribyrnong council area of Victoria (about 94,672 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 68 out of 100 (high), 75th of 362 councils nationally.

The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by break-ins (82nd percentile), robbery (94th percentile), homicide (71st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 64.

In 2024-25: violent 1,213 per 100,000 (+14% vs five years earlier); property 9,092 per 100,000 (+32% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,224 per 100,000 (+42% vs five years earlier); theft 5,504 per 100,000 (+36% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 30th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Maribyrnong council area is 5.7% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 5.4% of occupied homes (1,530 public and 280 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 823 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 94.3 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 40% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in Vietnam, India, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 6.3% (confidence 84 of 100); social housing about 4.9% of homes; about 92.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 40.6% 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 Footscray are those of the Maribyrnong council area.

Maribyrnong council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Nearby suburbs

Braybrook · Seddon · Seddon West · Yarraville

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