Moyston crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Moyston is a suburb in the Ararat council area of Victoria (about 11,732 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 75 out of 100 (high), 42nd of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Moyston (403 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 50 of the offences recorded each year in the Ararat council area (likely 24 to 82), roughly 12,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 6 violent offences (likely 2 to 11). 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 assault (68th percentile), homicide (97th percentile), break-ins (85th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 73.
In 2024-25: violent 2,122 per 100,000 (+31% vs five years earlier); property 6,154 per 100,000 (+35% vs five years earlier); break-ins 980 per 100,000 (+52% vs five years earlier); theft 2,787 per 100,000 (+33% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 5th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Ararat council area is 3.4% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.5% of occupied homes (104 public and 8 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 46 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 39.2 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 12.1% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, India. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.9% (confidence 75 of 100); social housing about 2.3% of homes; about 38.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 12.3% 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 Moyston are those of the Ararat 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 | 2,122 | 249 | +31% |
| Property | 6,154 | 722 | +35% |
| Break-ins | 980 | 115 | +52% |
| Theft | 2,787 | 327 | +33% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Ararat council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3377: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Moyston safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Moyston is in the Ararat council area, which recorded 2,120 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, 2 times the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 74% higher than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Moyston itself is roughly 12,000 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.
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