Pheasant Creek crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria

Pheasant Creek is a suburb in the Whittlesea council area of Victoria (about 259,759 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 40 out of 100 (moderate), 239th 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 robbery (66th percentile), homicide (53rd percentile), theft (71st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 50.

In 2024-25: violent 743 per 100,000 (-17% vs five years earlier); property 4,404 per 100,000 (+8% vs five years earlier); break-ins 434 per 100,000 (+16% vs five years earlier); theft 2,611 per 100,000 (+14% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 57th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Whittlesea council area is 5.9% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.1% of occupied homes (668 public and 205 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 855 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 36.1 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 39.3% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in India, North Macedonia, Italy. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 6.5% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 1.1% of homes; about 35.5 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 39.9% 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 Pheasant Creek are those of the Whittlesea council area.

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

Nearby suburbs

Bundoora · Doreen · Eden Park · Epping · Humevale · Kinglake Central · Kinglake West · Kingsbury · Lalor · Mernda · Mill Park · South Morang · Thomastown · Whittlesea · Wollert · Woodstock · Yan Yean

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