Tawonga South crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Tawonga South is a suburb in the Alpine council area of Victoria (about 13,236 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 22 out of 100 (low), 328th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Tawonga South (1,012 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 34 of the offences recorded each year in the Alpine council area (likely 16 to 55), roughly 3,300 per 100,000 residents, including about 7 violent offences (likely 4 to 12). 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), homicide (18th percentile), assault (9th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 36.
In 2024-25: violent 476 per 100,000 (-25% vs five years earlier); property 1,715 per 100,000 (-15% vs five years earlier); break-ins 249 per 100,000 (-4% vs five years earlier); theft 740 per 100,000 (-31% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 75th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Alpine council area is 2.1% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.4% of occupied homes (61 public and 14 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 32 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 24.4 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 15.4% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, Italy, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 2.3% (confidence 77 of 100); social housing about 1.3% of homes; about 24 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 15.6% 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 Tawonga South are those of the Alpine 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 | 476 | 63 | -25% |
| Property | 1,715 | 227 | -15% |
| Break-ins | 249 | 33 | -4% |
| Theft | 740 | 98 | -31% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Alpine council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3698: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Tawonga South safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Tawonga South is in the Alpine council area, which recorded 476 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 55% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 61% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Tawonga South itself is roughly 3,300 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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australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/vic/tawonga-south/ · Australian Crime Map