Kilsyth South crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Kilsyth South is a suburb in the Yarra Ranges council area of Victoria (about 160,906 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 33 out of 100 (low), 279th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Kilsyth South (2,862 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 86 of the offences recorded each year in the Yarra Ranges council area (likely 42 to 140), roughly 3,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 11 violent offences (likely 6 to 18). 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 homicide (60th percentile), robbery (60th percentile), sexual offences (41st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 38.
In 2024-25: violent 766 per 100,000 (+9% vs five years earlier); property 2,582 per 100,000 (-14% vs five years earlier); break-ins 333 per 100,000 (-15% vs five years earlier); theft 1,260 per 100,000 (-9% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 54th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Yarra Ranges council area is 3.5% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1% of occupied homes (424 public and 146 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 418 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 26.6 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 17.5% 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 85 of 100); social housing about 0.9% of homes; about 26.1 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 17.8% 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 Kilsyth South are those of the Yarra Ranges 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 | 766 | 1,232 | +9% |
| Property | 2,582 | 4,155 | -14% |
| Break-ins | 333 | 536 | -15% |
| Theft | 1,260 | 2,028 | -9% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Yarra Ranges council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3137: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Kilsyth South safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Kilsyth South is in the Yarra Ranges council area, which recorded 766 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 28% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 37% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Kilsyth South 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.
Nearby suburbs
Belgrave · Belgrave Heights · Belgrave South · Chirnside Park · Coldstream · Ferntree Gully · Ferny Creek · Kallista · Kalorama · Kilsyth · Lilydale · Lysterfield · Lysterfield South · Menzies Creek · Monbulk · Montrose · Mooroolbark · Mount Dandenong · Mount Evelyn · Olinda · Sassafras · Sassafras Gully · Selby · Sherbrooke · Silvan · Tecoma · The Patch · Tremont · Upper Ferntree Gully · Upwey
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