Swan Bay crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria

Swan Bay is a suburb in the Queenscliffe council area of Victoria (about 3,317 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 14 out of 100 (very low), 357th of 362 councils nationally.

The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by sexual offences (21st percentile), break-ins (19th percentile), homicide (18th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 32.

In 2024-25: violent 513 per 100,000 (+76% vs five years earlier); property 2,321 per 100,000 (-18% vs five years earlier); break-ins 362 per 100,000 (-34% vs five years earlier); theft 1,266 per 100,000 (-18% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 69th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Queenscliffe council area is 3% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 0.6% of occupied homes (9 public and 0 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 0 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 0 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 11.7% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, Scotland. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.4% (confidence 69 of 100); social housing about 0.6% of homes; about 0 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 11.9% 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 Swan Bay are those of the Queenscliffe council area.

Queenscliffe council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Nearby suburbs

Point Lonsdale · Queenscliff · Swan Island

australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/vic/swan-bay/ · Australian Crime Map