Sunderland Bay crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Sunderland Bay is a suburb in the Bass Coast council area of Victoria (about 44,377 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 56 out of 100 (moderate), 140th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Sunderland Bay (306 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 38 of the offences recorded each year in the Bass Coast council area (likely 19 to 64), roughly 13,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 5 violent offences (likely 2 to 8). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 31 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 (79th percentile), assault (50th percentile), sexual offences (73rd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 55.
In 2024-25: violent 1,293 per 100,000 (+38% vs five years earlier); property 3,671 per 100,000 (+21% vs five years earlier); break-ins 703 per 100,000 (+24% vs five years earlier); theft 1,573 per 100,000 (+19% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 25th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Bass Coast council area is 3.8% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.8% of occupied homes (225 public and 81 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 72 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 17.2 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 16.4% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, Netherlands. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.3% (confidence 81 of 100); social housing about 1.7% of homes; about 16.9 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 16.6% 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 Sunderland Bay are those of the Bass Coast 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 | 1,293 | 574 | +38% |
| Property | 3,671 | 1,629 | +21% |
| Break-ins | 703 | 312 | +24% |
| Theft | 1,573 | 698 | +19% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Bass Coast council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3922: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Sunderland Bay safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Sunderland Bay is in the Bass Coast council area, which recorded 1,290 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 22% higher than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 6% higher than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Sunderland Bay itself is roughly 13,000 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.
Nearby suburbs
Adams Estate · Almurta · Bass · Blackwood Forest · Caldermeade · Cape Woolamai · Churchill Island · Corinella · Coronet Bay · Cowes · Dalyston · Glen Forbes · Lang Lang · Monomeith · Newhaven · Pioneer Bay · Queensferry · Rhyll · Ryanston · San Remo · Silverleaves · Smiths Beach · Summerlands · Sunset Strip · Surf Beach · Tenby Point · The Gurdies · Ventnor · West Creek · Wimbledon Heights
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