Strathdale crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Strathdale is a suburb in the Greater Bendigo council area of Victoria (about 126,568 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 62 out of 100 (high), 114th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Strathdale (5,756 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 410 of the offences recorded each year in the Greater Bendigo council area (likely 200 to 670), roughly 7,100 per 100,000 residents, including about 55 violent offences (likely 34 to 77). 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 sexual offences (89th percentile), assault (44th percentile), homicide (63rd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 66.
In 2024-25: violent 1,456 per 100,000 (+27% vs five years earlier); property 5,019 per 100,000 (+5% vs five years earlier); break-ins 685 per 100,000 (+1% vs five years earlier); theft 2,776 per 100,000 (+17% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 18th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Greater Bendigo council area is 4.2% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.7% of occupied homes (1,365 public and 364 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 566 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 46.2 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, India, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.7% (confidence 84 of 100); social housing about 3.4% of homes; about 45.4 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 10.4% 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 Strathdale are those of the Greater Bendigo 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 | 1,456 | 1,843 | +27% |
| Property | 5,019 | 6,353 | +5% |
| Break-ins | 685 | 867 | +1% |
| Theft | 2,776 | 3,513 | +17% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Greater Bendigo council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3550: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Strathdale safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Strathdale is in the Greater Bendigo council area, which recorded 1,460 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 38% higher than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 20% higher than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Strathdale itself is roughly 7,100 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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