Gorae West crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Gorae West is a suburb in the Glenelg council area of Victoria (about 19,908 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 68 out of 100 (high), 79th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Gorae West (237 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 20 of the offences recorded each year in the Glenelg council area (likely 7 to 35), roughly 8,300 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 (91st percentile), assault (57th percentile), sexual offences (66th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 56.
In 2024-25: violent 1,582 per 100,000 (+33% vs five years earlier); property 5,556 per 100,000 (+66% vs five years earlier); break-ins 864 per 100,000 (+111% vs five years earlier); theft 2,421 per 100,000 (+52% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 15th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Glenelg council area is 4.4% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.3% of occupied homes (241 public and 32 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 94 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 47.1 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 9.5% 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% (confidence 78 of 100); social housing about 3.1% of homes; about 46.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 9.6% 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 Gorae West are those of the Glenelg 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 | 1,582 | 315 | +33% |
| Property | 5,556 | 1,106 | +66% |
| Break-ins | 864 | 172 | +111% |
| Theft | 2,421 | 482 | +52% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Glenelg council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3305: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Gorae West safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Gorae West is in the Glenelg council area, which recorded 1,580 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 50% higher than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 30% higher than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Gorae West itself is roughly 8,300 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.
Nearby suburbs
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