Newport crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Newport is a suburb in the Hobsons Bay council area of Victoria (about 97,031 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 48 out of 100 (moderate), 183rd of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Newport (13,658 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 670 of the offences recorded each year in the Hobsons Bay council area (likely 330 to 1,110), roughly 4,900 per 100,000 residents, including about 65 violent offences (likely 40 to 92). 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 (78th percentile), theft (87th percentile), break-ins (57th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 44.
In 2024-25: violent 777 per 100,000 (-3% vs five years earlier); property 5,622 per 100,000 (+47% vs five years earlier); break-ins 682 per 100,000 (+43% vs five years earlier); theft 3,456 per 100,000 (+56% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 52nd of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Hobsons Bay council area is 5.2% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.8% of occupied homes (781 public and 193 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 257 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 28 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 31.5% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, India, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5.8% (confidence 84 of 100); social housing about 2.6% of homes; about 27.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 32% 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 Newport are those of the Hobsons Bay 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 | 777 | 754 | -3% |
| Property | 5,622 | 5,455 | +47% |
| Break-ins | 682 | 662 | +43% |
| Theft | 3,456 | 3,353 | +56% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Hobsons Bay council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3015: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Newport safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Newport is in the Hobsons Bay council area, which recorded 777 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 27% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 36% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Newport 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
Altona · Altona Meadows · Altona North · Laverton · Seabrook · Seaholme · South Kingsville · Spotswood · Williamstown · Williamstown North
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