Glenburn crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Glenburn is a suburb in the Murrindindi council area of Victoria (about 15,648 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 38 out of 100 (low), 255th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Glenburn (443 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 13 of the offences recorded each year in the Murrindindi council area (likely 5 to 24), roughly 3,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 2 violent offences (likely 0 to 3). 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 (94th percentile), sexual offences (43rd percentile), break-ins (40th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 48.
In 2024-25: violent 799 per 100,000 (+1% vs five years earlier); property 2,039 per 100,000 (-26% vs five years earlier); break-ins 428 per 100,000 (-29% vs five years earlier); theft 831 per 100,000 (-25% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 51st of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Murrindindi council area is 3.6% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1% of occupied homes (45 public and 13 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 39 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 25.5 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 12.4% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, Netherlands. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4% (confidence 77 of 100); social housing about 0.9% of homes; about 25 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 12.6% 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 Glenburn are those of the Murrindindi 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 | 799 | 125 | +1% |
| Property | 2,039 | 319 | -26% |
| Break-ins | 428 | 67 | -29% |
| Theft | 831 | 130 | -25% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Murrindindi council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3717: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Glenburn safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Glenburn is in the Murrindindi council area, which recorded 799 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 24% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 34% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Glenburn itself is roughly 3,000 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.
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