Mount Cottrell crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Mount Cottrell is a suburb in the Wyndham council area of Victoria (about 347,830 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 49 out of 100 (moderate), 177th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Mount Cottrell (496 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 77 of the offences recorded each year in the Wyndham council area (likely 38 to 130), roughly 15,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 6 violent offences (likely 2 to 10). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 31 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 (89th percentile), homicide (66th percentile), break-ins (54th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 45.
In 2024-25: violent 830 per 100,000 (+6% vs five years earlier); property 4,669 per 100,000 (+27% vs five years earlier); break-ins 674 per 100,000 (+50% vs five years earlier); theft 2,750 per 100,000 (+26% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 48th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Wyndham council area is 6.8% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1% of occupied homes (643 public and 219 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 1,046 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 33.9 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 50.6% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in India, New Zealand, Philippines. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 7.6% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 0.9% of homes; about 33.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 51.4% 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 Cottrell are those of the Wyndham 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 | 830 | 2,886 | +6% |
| Property | 4,669 | 16,239 | +27% |
| Break-ins | 674 | 2,346 | +50% |
| Theft | 2,750 | 9,566 | +26% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Wyndham council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3024: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Mount Cottrell safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Mount Cottrell is in the Wyndham council area, which recorded 830 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 22% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 32% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Mount Cottrell itself is roughly 15,000 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.
Nearby suburbs
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