Sunshine North crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Sunshine North is a suburb in the Brimbank council area of Victoria (about 198,181 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 60 out of 100 (moderate), 125th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Sunshine North (12,047 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 1,180 of the offences recorded each year in the Brimbank council area (likely 580 to 1,940), roughly 9,800 per 100,000 residents, including about 130 violent offences (likely 77 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 robbery (93rd percentile), homicide (76th percentile), break-ins (60th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 65.
In 2024-25: violent 986 per 100,000 (-16% vs five years earlier); property 5,677 per 100,000 (+1% vs five years earlier); break-ins 645 per 100,000 (-4% vs five years earlier); theft 3,159 per 100,000 (-7% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 40th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Brimbank council area is 7.9% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.5% of occupied homes (1,235 public and 355 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 1,526 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 79.1 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 51.2% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in Vietnam, India, Philippines. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 8.8% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 2.3% of homes; about 77.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 52% 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 Sunshine North are those of the Brimbank 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 | 986 | 1,954 | -16% |
| Property | 5,677 | 11,250 | +1% |
| Break-ins | 645 | 1,279 | -4% |
| Theft | 3,159 | 6,260 | -7% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Brimbank council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3020: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Sunshine North safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Sunshine North is in the Brimbank council area, which recorded 986 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 7% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 19% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Sunshine North itself is roughly 9,800 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
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australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/vic/sunshine-north/ · Australian Crime Map