Seaford crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Seaford is a suburb in the Frankston council area of Victoria (about 145,369 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 71 out of 100 (high), 65th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Seaford (17,215 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 2,380 of the offences recorded each year in the Frankston council area (likely 1,180 to 3,920), roughly 14,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 270 violent offences (likely 170 to 380). 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 assault (56th percentile), robbery (91st percentile), break-ins (75th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 67.
In 2024-25: violent 1,426 per 100,000 (+18% vs five years earlier); property 6,560 per 100,000 (+27% vs five years earlier); break-ins 881 per 100,000 (+65% vs five years earlier); theft 3,589 per 100,000 (+28% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 19th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Frankston council area is 4.6% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.7% of occupied homes (1,154 public and 273 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 787 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 55.8 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 22.5% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, India. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5.2% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 2.5% of homes; about 54.9 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 22.9% 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 Seaford are those of the Frankston 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 | 1,426 | 2,073 | +18% |
| Property | 6,560 | 9,536 | +27% |
| Break-ins | 881 | 1,281 | +65% |
| Theft | 3,589 | 5,217 | +28% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Frankston council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3198: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Seaford safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Seaford is in the Frankston council area, which recorded 1,430 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 35% higher than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 17% higher than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Seaford itself is roughly 14,000 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.
Police news near Seaford
- Two teens stabbed in Cranbourne · Cranbourne, 7 Sept 2026 · 13 km away
Nearby suburbs
Carrum Downs · Frankston · Frankston East · Frankston Heights · Frankston North · Frankston South · Karingal · Karingal Centre · Langwarrin · Pines Forest
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