Stawell crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Stawell is a suburb in the Northern Grampians council area of Victoria (about 11,804 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 71 out of 100 (high), 64th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Stawell (6,220 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 680 of the offences recorded each year in the Northern Grampians council area (likely 340 to 1,120), roughly 11,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 130 violent offences (likely 79 to 180). 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 (69th percentile), sexual offences (91st percentile), homicide (89th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 63.
In 2024-25: violent 2,262 per 100,000 (+60% vs five years earlier); property 4,820 per 100,000 (+36% vs five years earlier); break-ins 661 per 100,000 (+7% vs five years earlier); theft 2,008 per 100,000 (+54% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 3rd of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Northern Grampians council area is 3.8% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.3% of occupied homes (115 public and 45 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 33 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 27.9 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 10.2% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, Philippines, India. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.2% (confidence 76 of 100); social housing about 3% of homes; about 27.4 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 10.3% 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 Stawell are those of the Northern Grampians 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 | 2,262 | 267 | +60% |
| Property | 4,820 | 569 | +36% |
| Break-ins | 661 | 78 | +7% |
| Theft | 2,008 | 237 | +54% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Northern Grampians council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3380: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Stawell safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Stawell is in the Northern Grampians council area, which recorded 2,260 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, 2.1 times the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 86% higher than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Stawell itself is roughly 11,000 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.
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