Templestowe crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Templestowe is a suburb in the Manningham council area of Victoria (about 132,912 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 30 out of 100 (low), 292nd of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Templestowe (16,966 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 460 of the offences recorded each year in the Manningham council area (likely 230 to 760), roughly 2,700 per 100,000 residents, including about 48 violent offences (likely 29 to 68). 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 break-ins (54th percentile), homicide (49th percentile), robbery (59th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 29.
In 2024-25: violent 369 per 100,000 (+1% vs five years earlier); property 2,697 per 100,000 (+9% vs five years earlier); break-ins 523 per 100,000 (+3% vs five years earlier); theft 1,485 per 100,000 (+17% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 78th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Manningham council area is 5.2% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 0.6% of occupied homes (165 public and 90 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 185 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 14.6 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 44.8% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in China, Malaysia, Hong Kong. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5.9% (confidence 84 of 100); social housing about 0.5% of homes; about 14.4 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 45.5% 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 Templestowe are those of the Manningham 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 | 369 | 490 | +1% |
| Property | 2,697 | 3,585 | +9% |
| Break-ins | 523 | 695 | +3% |
| Theft | 1,485 | 1,974 | +17% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Manningham council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3106: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Templestowe safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Templestowe is in the Manningham council area, which recorded 369 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 65% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 70% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Templestowe itself is roughly 2,700 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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