Parkville crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria

Parkville is a suburb in the Melbourne council area of Victoria (about 194,481 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 88 out of 100 (very high), 9th 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 assault (83rd percentile), sexual offences (93rd percentile), break-ins (86th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 90.

In 2024-25: violent 2,900 per 100,000 (+18% vs five years earlier); property 15,384 per 100,000 (+30% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,495 per 100,000 (+27% vs five years earlier); theft 9,729 per 100,000 (+51% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 1st of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Melbourne council area is 7.6% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.5% of occupied homes (1,978 public and 533 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 1,164 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 73.1 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 59% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in China, India, Malaysia. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 8.4% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 3.3% of homes; about 71.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 60% 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 Parkville are those of the Melbourne council area.

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Nearby suburbs

Carlton · Carlton South · Docklands · East Melbourne · Flemington · Kensington · Melbourne · North Melbourne · South Wharf · Southbank · West Melbourne

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