Tangambalanga crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Tangambalanga is a suburb in the Wodonga council area of Victoria (about 44,717 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 67 out of 100 (high), 83rd of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Tangambalanga (908 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 76 of the offences recorded each year in the Wodonga council area (likely 38 to 130), roughly 8,400 per 100,000 residents, including about 7 violent offences (likely 2 to 11). 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 (87th percentile), homicide (78th percentile), assault (50th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 62.
In 2024-25: violent 1,337 per 100,000 (+24% vs five years earlier); property 5,164 per 100,000 (+15% vs five years earlier); break-ins 689 per 100,000 (+1% vs five years earlier); theft 2,634 per 100,000 (+15% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 24th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Wodonga council area is 4.2% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 5.6% of occupied homes (854 public and 67 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 213 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 49.1 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 12% 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 82 of 100); social housing about 5.2% of homes; about 48.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 12.1% 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 Tangambalanga are those of the Wodonga 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 | 1,337 | 598 | +24% |
| Property | 5,164 | 2,309 | +15% |
| Break-ins | 689 | 308 | +1% |
| Theft | 2,634 | 1,178 | +15% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Wodonga council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3691: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Tangambalanga safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Tangambalanga is in the Wodonga council area, which recorded 1,340 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 26% higher than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 10% higher than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Tangambalanga itself is roughly 8,400 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
Barnawartha North · Bellbridge · Bonegilla · Ebden · Kergunyah South · Killara · Leneva · Talgarno · Upper Gundowring · West Wodonga · Wodonga
australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/vic/tangambalanga/ · Australian Crime Map