Newstead crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Newstead is a suburb in the Mount Alexander council area of Victoria (about 20,939 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 36 out of 100 (low), 268th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Newstead (820 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 54 of the offences recorded each year in the Mount Alexander council area (likely 27 to 90), roughly 6,600 per 100,000 residents, including about 6 violent offences (likely 2 to 9). 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 sexual offences (49th percentile), robbery (58th percentile), break-ins (46th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 40.
In 2024-25: violent 884 per 100,000 (+40% vs five years earlier); property 3,348 per 100,000 (+16% vs five years earlier); break-ins 540 per 100,000 (+54% vs five years earlier); theft 1,552 per 100,000 (+17% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 45th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Mount Alexander council area is 3.8% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.2% of occupied homes (146 public and 36 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 43 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 21.2 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 13.4% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, Germany. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.2% (confidence 78 of 100); social housing about 2% of homes; about 20.9 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 13.6% 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 Newstead are those of the Mount Alexander 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 | 884 | 185 | +40% |
| Property | 3,348 | 701 | +16% |
| Break-ins | 540 | 113 | +54% |
| Theft | 1,552 | 325 | +17% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Mount Alexander council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3462: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Newstead safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Newstead is in the Mount Alexander council area, which recorded 884 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 16% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 27% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Newstead itself is roughly 6,600 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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