Heidelberg crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Heidelberg is a suburb in the Banyule council area of Victoria (about 132,770 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 49 out of 100 (moderate), 180th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Heidelberg (7,360 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 670 of the offences recorded each year in the Banyule council area (likely 330 to 1,100), roughly 9,100 per 100,000 residents, including about 63 violent offences (likely 38 to 88). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 44 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 robbery (87th percentile), homicide (61st percentile), break-ins (61st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 48.
In 2024-25: violent 735 per 100,000 (+9% vs five years earlier); property 5,038 per 100,000 (+29% vs five years earlier); break-ins 709 per 100,000 (+24% vs five years earlier); theft 2,870 per 100,000 (+34% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 58th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Banyule council area is 4.3% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.7% of occupied homes (1,427 public and 328 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 541 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 42.5 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 25.3% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in China, England, India. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.8% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 3.4% of homes; about 41.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 25.7% 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 Heidelberg are those of the Banyule 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 | 735 | 976 | +9% |
| Property | 5,038 | 6,689 | +29% |
| Break-ins | 709 | 941 | +24% |
| Theft | 2,870 | 3,810 | +34% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Banyule council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3084: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Heidelberg safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Heidelberg is in the Banyule council area, which recorded 735 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 30% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 40% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Heidelberg itself is roughly 9,100 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 Heidelberg
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Nearby suburbs
Banyule · Bellfield · Briar Hill · Eaglemont · Greensborough · Heidelberg Heights · Heidelberg West · Ivanhoe · Ivanhoe East · Lower Plenty · Macleod · Macleod West · Montmorency · Rosanna · Saint Helena · Viewbank · Watsonia · Watsonia North · Yallambie
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