Sandringham crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria

Sandringham is a suburb in the Bayside council area of Victoria (about 107,164 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 38 out of 100 (low), 250th 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 break-ins (67th percentile), homicide (48th percentile), vehicle theft (79th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 36.

In 2024-25: violent 487 per 100,000 (+14% vs five years earlier); property 3,988 per 100,000 (+13% vs five years earlier); break-ins 794 per 100,000 (+38% vs five years earlier); theft 2,046 per 100,000 (+13% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 74th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Bayside council area is 3.9% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.1% of occupied homes (693 public and 118 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 145 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 14.2 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 28% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, China, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.3% (confidence 84 of 100); social housing about 2% of homes; about 14 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 28.4% 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 Sandringham are those of the Bayside council area.

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

Nearby suburbs

Beaumaris · Black Rock · Brighton · Brighton East · Brighton North · Dendy · Hampton · Hampton East · Hampton Notrh · Highett

australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/vic/sandringham/ · Australian Crime Map