Merton crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Merton is a suburb in the Mansfield council area of Victoria (about 10,979 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 27 out of 100 (low), 299th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Merton (216 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 14 of the offences recorded each year in the Mansfield council area (likely 5 to 26), roughly 6,600 per 100,000 residents, including about 1 violent offences (likely 0 to 3). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 26 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 (90th percentile), sexual offences (23rd percentile), assault (12th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 34.
In 2024-25: violent 565 per 100,000 (-17% vs five years earlier); property 1,731 per 100,000 (+10% vs five years earlier); break-ins 209 per 100,000 (+14% vs five years earlier); theft 701 per 100,000 (-11% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 65th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Mansfield council area is 2% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.4% of occupied homes (51 public and 3 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 31 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 30.1 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 12.3% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, Germany. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 2.2% (confidence 75 of 100); social housing about 1.3% of homes; about 29.5 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 12.5% 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 Merton are those of the Mansfield 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 | 565 | 62 | -17% |
| Property | 1,731 | 190 | +10% |
| Break-ins | 209 | 23 | +14% |
| Theft | 701 | 77 | -11% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Mansfield council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3715: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Merton safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Merton is in the Mansfield council area, which recorded 565 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 47% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 54% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Merton itself is roughly 6,600 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
Ancona · Barwite · Bonnie Doon · Mansfield · Mirimbah · Woodfield
australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/vic/merton/ · Australian Crime Map