Saint Leonards crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Saint Leonards is a suburb in the Greater Geelong council area of Victoria (about 295,052 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 54 out of 100 (moderate), 149th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Saint Leonards (3,542 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 300 of the offences recorded each year in the Greater Geelong council area (likely 150 to 490), roughly 8,500 per 100,000 residents, including about 30 violent offences (likely 18 to 42). 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 (68th percentile), break-ins (56th percentile), assault (37th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 61.
In 2024-25: violent 1,001 per 100,000 (+2% vs five years earlier); property 4,714 per 100,000 (-2% vs five years earlier); break-ins 589 per 100,000 (-22% vs five years earlier); theft 2,674 per 100,000 (+8% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 38th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Greater Geelong council area is 4.4% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.2% of occupied homes (2,577 public and 774 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 1,532 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 55.5 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 18.5% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, India, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 3% of homes; about 54.5 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 18.8% 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 Saint Leonards are those of the Greater Geelong 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 | 1,001 | 2,952 | +2% |
| Property | 4,714 | 13,909 | -2% |
| Break-ins | 589 | 1,739 | -22% |
| Theft | 2,674 | 7,889 | +8% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Greater Geelong council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3223: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Saint Leonards safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Saint Leonards is in the Greater Geelong 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 Saint Leonards itself is roughly 8,500 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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