Highpoint City crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Highpoint City is a suburb in the Moonee Valley council area of Victoria (about 130,501 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 46 out of 100 (moderate), 207th 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 robbery (82nd percentile), theft (90th percentile), homicide (50th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 44.
In 2024-25: violent 769 per 100,000 (+17% vs five years earlier); property 5,492 per 100,000 (+27% vs five years earlier); break-ins 489 per 100,000 (-7% vs five years earlier); theft 3,540 per 100,000 (+36% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 53rd of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Moonee Valley council area is 4.6% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 4% of occupied homes (1,713 public and 212 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 320 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 26.1 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 28.9% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in Italy, India, Vietnam. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5.1% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 3.7% of homes; about 25.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 29.3% 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 Highpoint City are those of the Moonee Valley 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 | 769 | 1,003 | +17% |
| Property | 5,492 | 7,167 | +27% |
| Break-ins | 489 | 638 | -7% |
| Theft | 3,540 | 4,620 | +36% |
Moonee Valley council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3032: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Highpoint City safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Highpoint City is in the Moonee Valley council area, which recorded 769 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 27% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 37% lower than the national rate (1,220). 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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