Mount Macedon crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Mount Macedon is a suburb in the Macedon Ranges council area of Victoria (about 54,464 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 29 out of 100 (low), 294th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Mount Macedon (1,450 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 48 of the offences recorded each year in the Macedon Ranges council area (likely 24 to 79), roughly 3,300 per 100,000 residents, including about 4 violent offences (likely 1 to 8). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 44 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 (82nd percentile), sexual offences (27th percentile), vehicle theft (41st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 34.
In 2024-25: violent 490 per 100,000 (-8% vs five years earlier); property 2,593 per 100,000 (+9% vs five years earlier); break-ins 375 per 100,000 (-12% vs five years earlier); theft 1,298 per 100,000 (+11% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 73rd of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Macedon Ranges council area is 3.2% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.4% of occupied homes (165 public and 88 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 85 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 16.3 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 13.8% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, Scotland. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.6% (confidence 83 of 100); social housing about 1.3% of homes; about 16 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 14% 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 Macedon are those of the Macedon Ranges 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 | 490 | 267 | -8% |
| Property | 2,593 | 1,412 | +9% |
| Break-ins | 375 | 204 | -12% |
| Theft | 1,298 | 707 | +11% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Macedon Ranges council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3441: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Mount Macedon safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Mount Macedon is in the Macedon Ranges council area, which recorded 490 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 54% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 60% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Mount Macedon itself is roughly 3,300 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.
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