Lower Plenty crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria

Lower Plenty is a suburb in the Banyule council area of Victoria (about 132,770 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 46 out of 100 (moderate), 198th 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 (80th percentile), homicide (58th percentile), break-ins (52nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 49.

In 2024-25: violent 735 per 100,000 (+9% vs five years earlier); property 5,038 per 100,000 (+29% vs five years earlier); break-ins 709 per 100,000 (+24% vs five years earlier); theft 2,870 per 100,000 (+34% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 58th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Banyule council area is 4.3% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.7% of occupied homes (1,427 public and 328 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 541 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 42.5 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 25.3% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in China, England, India. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.7% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 3.4% of homes; about 41.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 25.7% 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 Lower Plenty are those of the Banyule council area.

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

Nearby suburbs

Banyule · Bellfield · Briar Hill · Eaglemont · Greensborough · Heidelberg · Heidelberg Heights · Heidelberg West · Ivanhoe · Ivanhoe East · Macleod · Macleod West · Montmorency · Rosanna · Saint Helena · Viewbank · Watsonia · Watsonia North · Yallambie

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