Murrumbeena crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Murrumbeena is a suburb in the Glen Eira council area of Victoria (about 163,025 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 39 out of 100 (low), 250th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Murrumbeena (9,996 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 490 of the offences recorded each year in the Glen Eira council area (likely 240 to 810), roughly 4,900 per 100,000 residents, including about 55 violent offences (likely 34 to 78). 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 robbery (79th percentile), break-ins (55th percentile), homicide (54th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 36.
In 2024-25: violent 595 per 100,000 (+12% vs five years earlier); property 3,641 per 100,000 (+8% vs five years earlier); break-ins 615 per 100,000 (+18% vs five years earlier); theft 1,928 per 100,000 (+2% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 63rd of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Glen Eira council area is 4.2% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.2% of occupied homes (432 public and 255 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 565 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 37.3 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 38.2% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in China, India, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.7% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 1.1% of homes; about 36.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 38.8% 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 Murrumbeena are those of the Glen Eira 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 | 595 | 970 | +12% |
| Property | 3,641 | 5,935 | +8% |
| Break-ins | 615 | 1,003 | +18% |
| Theft | 1,928 | 3,143 | +2% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Glen Eira council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3163: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Murrumbeena safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Murrumbeena is in the Glen Eira council area, which recorded 595 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 44% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 51% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Murrumbeena itself is roughly 4,900 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
Balaclava · Bentleigh · Bentleigh East · Carnegie · Caulfield · Caulfield Junction · Caulfield North · Caulfield South · Elsternwick · Gardenvale · Glen Huntly · McKinnon · Ormond · Ripponlea · Saint Kilda East
australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/vic/murrumbeena/ · Australian Crime Map