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 39 out of 100 (low), 254th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Sandringham (10,926 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 640 of the offences recorded each year in the Bayside council area (likely 320 to 1,060), roughly 5,900 per 100,000 residents, including about 56 violent offences (likely 34 to 79). 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 break-ins (68th percentile), homicide (55th percentile), robbery (58th 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 4.4% (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.
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 | 487 | 522 | +14% |
| Property | 3,988 | 4,274 | +13% |
| Break-ins | 794 | 851 | +38% |
| Theft | 2,046 | 2,193 | +13% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Bayside council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3191: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Sandringham safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Sandringham is in the Bayside council area, which recorded 487 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 54% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 60% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Sandringham itself is roughly 5,900 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
Beaumaris · Black Rock · Brighton · Brighton East · Brighton North · Dendy · Hampton · Hampton East · Hampton Notrh · Highett
australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/vic/sandringham/ · Australian Crime Map