Myrrhee crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria

Myrrhee is a suburb in the Wangaratta council area of Victoria (about 30,089 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 60 out of 100 (high), 122nd 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 (87th percentile), homicide (85th percentile), assault (44th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 57.

In 2024-25: violent 1,409 per 100,000 (+17% vs five years earlier); property 4,400 per 100,000 (+39% vs five years earlier); break-ins 435 per 100,000 (+13% vs five years earlier); theft 2,360 per 100,000 (+38% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 21st of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Wangaratta council area is 2.9% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.7% of occupied homes (371 public and 69 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 122 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 40.9 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 9.7% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, Italy, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.2% (confidence 80 of 100); social housing about 3.4% of homes; about 40.2 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 9.8% 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 Myrrhee are those of the Wangaratta council area.

Wangaratta council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Nearby suburbs

Boralma · Bowmans Forest · Eldorado · Lilliput · Moyhu · Norong · Springhurst · Wangaratta · Whitfield · Whorouly · Whorouly East · Whorouly South

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