Rowville crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Rowville is a suburb in the Knox council area of Victoria (about 163,820 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 48 out of 100 (moderate), 188th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Rowville (33,571 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 1,440 of the offences recorded each year in the Knox council area (likely 710 to 2,360), roughly 4,300 per 100,000 residents, including about 190 violent offences (likely 110 to 260). 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 robbery (82nd percentile), sexual offences (66th percentile), theft (74th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 51.
In 2024-25: violent 1,000 per 100,000 (+22% vs five years earlier); property 4,108 per 100,000 (-6% vs five years earlier); break-ins 508 per 100,000 (-14% vs five years earlier); theft 2,420 per 100,000 (-2% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 39th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Knox council area is 4.4% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2% of occupied homes (925 public and 249 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 431 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 27 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 34.1% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in China, India, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 1.9% of homes; about 26.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 34.6% 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 Rowville are those of the Knox 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 | 1,000 | 1,639 | +22% |
| Property | 4,108 | 6,730 | -6% |
| Break-ins | 508 | 832 | -14% |
| Theft | 2,420 | 3,964 | -2% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Knox council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3178: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Rowville safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Rowville is in the Knox council area, which recorded 1,000 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 5% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 18% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Rowville itself is roughly 4,300 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
Bayswater · Bayswater North · Boronia · Knox City Centre · Knoxfield · Scoresby · Studfield · The Basin · Wantirna · Wantirna South
australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/vic/rowville/ · Australian Crime Map