Numurkah crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Numurkah is a suburb in the Moira council area of Victoria (about 30,866 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 56 out of 100 (moderate), 144th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Numurkah (4,604 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 450 of the offences recorded each year in the Moira council area (likely 220 to 740), roughly 9,800 per 100,000 residents, including about 74 violent offences (likely 45 to 100). 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 homicide (93rd percentile), sexual offences (90th percentile), assault (42nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 57.
In 2024-25: violent 1,264 per 100,000 (+39% vs five years earlier); property 3,311 per 100,000 (-16% vs five years earlier); break-ins 551 per 100,000 (-32% vs five years earlier); theft 1,481 per 100,000 (-18% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 26th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Moira council area is 3.5% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.5% of occupied homes (254 public and 44 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 70 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 23 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 10.8% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, Malaysia. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.9% (confidence 80 of 100); social housing about 2.3% of homes; about 22.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 11% 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 Numurkah are those of the Moira 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 | 1,264 | 390 | +39% |
| Property | 3,311 | 1,022 | -16% |
| Break-ins | 551 | 170 | -32% |
| Theft | 1,481 | 457 | -18% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Moira council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3636: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Numurkah safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Numurkah is in the Moira council area, which recorded 1,260 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 19% higher than the Victoria rate (1,060) and close to the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Numurkah itself is roughly 9,800 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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