Mount Alfred crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Mount Alfred is a suburb in the Towong council area of Victoria (about 6,158 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 27 out of 100 (low), 301st 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 sexual offences (64th percentile), weapons (81st percentile), robbery (28th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 22.
In 2024-25: violent 682 per 100,000 (-12% vs five years earlier); property 1,705 per 100,000 (+12% vs five years earlier); break-ins 373 per 100,000 (+65% vs five years earlier); theft 666 per 100,000 (-7% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 61st of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Towong council area is 3.5% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.2% of occupied homes (19 public and 9 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 5 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 8.1 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 9.1% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, Germany. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.9% (confidence 72 of 100); social housing about 1.1% of homes; about 8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 9.3% 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 Mount Alfred are those of the Towong 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 | 682 | 42 | -12% |
| Property | 1,705 | 105 | +12% |
| Break-ins | 373 | 23 | +65% |
| Theft | 666 | 41 | -7% |
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Questions
Is Mount Alfred safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Mount Alfred is in the Towong council area, which recorded 682 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 36% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 44% lower 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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