Lilliput crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria

Lilliput is a suburb in the Wangaratta council area of Victoria (about 30,089 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 60 out of 100 (moderate), 127th 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 homicide (86th percentile), sexual offences (78th percentile), assault (44th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 58.

In 2024-25: violent 1,409 per 100,000 (+17% vs five years earlier); property 4,400 per 100,000 (+39% vs five years earlier); break-ins 435 per 100,000 (+13% vs five years earlier); theft 2,360 per 100,000 (+38% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 21st of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Wangaratta council area is 2.9% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.7% of occupied homes (371 public and 69 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 122 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 40.9 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 9.7% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, Italy, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.3% (confidence 80 of 100); social housing about 3.4% of homes; about 40.2 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 9.8% 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 Lilliput are those of the Wangaratta council area.

Figures are for 2024-25, the latest year Victoria has published; some other states have released 2025-26.

OffencesPer 100,000Count5-yr change
Violent1,409424+17%
Property4,4001,324+39%
Break-ins435131+13%
Theft2,360710+38%

Wangaratta council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Crime in postcode 3682: every suburb and council it covers.

Questions

Is Lilliput safe?

Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Lilliput is in the Wangaratta council area, which recorded 1,410 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 33% higher than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 16% higher 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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