Kingsbury crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Kingsbury is a suburb in the Whittlesea council area of Victoria (about 259,759 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 43 out of 100 (moderate), 228th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Kingsbury (3,460 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 660 of the offences recorded each year in the Whittlesea council area (likely 320 to 1,080), roughly 19,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 62 violent offences (likely 38 to 86). 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 (72nd percentile), homicide (59th percentile), theft (76th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 49.
In 2024-25: violent 743 per 100,000 (-17% vs five years earlier); property 4,404 per 100,000 (+8% vs five years earlier); break-ins 434 per 100,000 (+16% vs five years earlier); theft 2,611 per 100,000 (+14% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 57th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Whittlesea council area is 5.9% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.1% of occupied homes (668 public and 205 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 855 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 36.1 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 39.3% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in India, North Macedonia, Italy. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 6.6% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 1.1% of homes; about 35.5 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 39.9% 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 Kingsbury are those of the Whittlesea 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 | 743 | 1,929 | -17% |
| Property | 4,404 | 11,441 | +8% |
| Break-ins | 434 | 1,128 | +16% |
| Theft | 2,611 | 6,782 | +14% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Whittlesea council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3083: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Kingsbury safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Kingsbury is in the Whittlesea council area, which recorded 743 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 30% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 39% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Kingsbury itself is roughly 19,000 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.
Police news near Kingsbury
- Police investigate Reservoir death · Reservoir, 28 Oct 2026 · 4 km away
Nearby suburbs
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