Horsham crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Horsham is a suburb in the Horsham council area of Victoria (about 20,252 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 68 out of 100 (high), 76th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Horsham (15,134 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 1,900 of the offences recorded each year in the Horsham council area (likely 940 to 3,130), roughly 13,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 330 violent offences (likely 200 to 460). 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 assault (75th percentile), sexual offences (90th percentile), homicide (79th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 66.
In 2024-25: violent 2,103 per 100,000 (+24% vs five years earlier); property 4,405 per 100,000 (+14% vs five years earlier); break-ins 385 per 100,000 (-18% vs five years earlier); theft 1,615 per 100,000 (0% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 6th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Horsham council area is 3.1% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.9% of occupied homes (288 public and 36 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 91 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 44.8 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 7.6% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, India, Philippines. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.4% (confidence 79 of 100); social housing about 3.6% of homes; about 44 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 7.7% 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 Horsham are those of the Horsham 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 | 2,103 | 426 | +24% |
| Property | 4,405 | 892 | +14% |
| Break-ins | 385 | 78 | -18% |
| Theft | 1,615 | 327 | +0% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Horsham council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3400: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Horsham safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Horsham is in the Horsham council area, which recorded 2,100 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 99% higher than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 73% higher than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Horsham itself is roughly 13,000 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.
Nearby suburbs
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australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/vic/horsham/ · Australian Crime Map