St Andrews crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
St Andrews is a suburb in the Nillumbik council area of Victoria (about 63,797 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 24 out of 100 (low), 312th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: St Andrews (1,186 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 51 of the offences recorded each year in the Nillumbik council area (likely 25 to 84), roughly 4,300 per 100,000 residents, including about 5 violent offences (likely 2 to 9). 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 robbery (61st percentile), homicide (50th percentile), theft (34th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 21.
In 2024-25: violent 442 per 100,000 (+10% vs five years earlier); property 2,205 per 100,000 (+16% vs five years earlier); break-ins 342 per 100,000 (+18% vs five years earlier); theft 1,182 per 100,000 (+33% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 77th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Nillumbik council area is 3.5% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 0.5% of occupied homes (100 public and 14 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 79 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 12.5 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 16.8% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, Italy. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.9% (confidence 83 of 100); social housing about 0.5% of homes; about 12.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 17.1% 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 St Andrews are those of the Nillumbik 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 | 442 | 282 | +10% |
| Property | 2,205 | 1,407 | +16% |
| Break-ins | 342 | 218 | +18% |
| Theft | 1,182 | 754 | +33% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Nillumbik council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3761: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is St Andrews safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. St Andrews is in the Nillumbik council area, which recorded 442 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 58% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 64% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for St Andrews itself is roughly 4,300 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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australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/vic/st-andrews/ · Australian Crime Map