Quambatook crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Quambatook is a suburb in the Gannawarra council area of Victoria (about 10,311 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 58 out of 100 (moderate), 137th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Quambatook (229 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 25 of the offences recorded each year in the Gannawarra council area (likely 9 to 45), roughly 11,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 3 violent offences (likely 1 to 4). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 26 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 (91st percentile), sexual offences (65th percentile), assault (39th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 55.
In 2024-25: violent 1,135 per 100,000 (+3% vs five years earlier); property 3,317 per 100,000 (+15% vs five years earlier); break-ins 524 per 100,000 (+9% vs five years earlier); theft 1,484 per 100,000 (+35% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 33rd of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Gannawarra council area is 3.5% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2% of occupied homes (83 public and 6 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 20 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 19.1 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 6.1% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, Philippines, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4% (confidence 75 of 100); social housing about 1.9% of homes; about 18.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 6.2% 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 Quambatook are those of the Gannawarra 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 | 1,135 | 117 | +3% |
| Property | 3,317 | 342 | +15% |
| Break-ins | 524 | 54 | +9% |
| Theft | 1,484 | 153 | +35% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Gannawarra council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3540: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Quambatook safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Quambatook is in the Gannawarra council area, which recorded 1,130 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 7% higher than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 7% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Quambatook itself is roughly 11,000 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
Beauchamp · Benjeroop · Cannie · Cohuna · Cokum · Cullen · Daltons Bridge · Gannawarra · Horfield · Keely · Koondrook · Koroop · Lake Charm · Lalbert · Leitchville · Macorna North · McMillans · Mead · Meering West · Mincha West · Murrabit West · Myall · Mystic Park · Oakvale · Tittybong · Tragowel · Wandella · Wee Wee Rup · Westby
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