Sea Lake crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Sea Lake is a suburb in the Buloke council area of Victoria (about 5,887 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 35 out of 100 (low), 273rd of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Sea Lake (619 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 35 of the offences recorded each year in the Buloke council area (likely 17 to 58), roughly 5,700 per 100,000 residents, including about 4 violent offences (likely 1 to 7). 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 (97th percentile), break-ins (34th percentile), assault (21st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 40.
In 2024-25: violent 493 per 100,000 (-42% vs five years earlier); property 2,565 per 100,000 (-12% vs five years earlier); break-ins 459 per 100,000 (-29% vs five years earlier); theft 1,274 per 100,000 (-15% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 72nd of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Buloke council area is 3.4% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.1% of occupied homes (44 public and 10 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 4 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 6.6 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 7.2% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, Philippines. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.9% (confidence 72 of 100); social housing about 1.9% of homes; about 6.4 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 7.3% 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 Sea Lake are those of the Buloke 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 | 493 | 29 | -42% |
| Property | 2,565 | 151 | -12% |
| Break-ins | 459 | 27 | -29% |
| Theft | 1,274 | 75 | -15% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Buloke council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3533: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Sea Lake safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Sea Lake is in the Buloke council area, which recorded 493 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 53% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 60% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Sea Lake itself is roughly 5,700 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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