Torquay crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Torquay is a suburb in the Surf Coast council area of Victoria (about 40,265 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 24 out of 100 (low), 315th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Torquay (18,534 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 320 of the offences recorded each year in the Surf Coast council area (likely 160 to 520), roughly 1,700 per 100,000 residents, including about 50 violent offences (likely 31 to 70). 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 homicide (80th percentile), sexual offences (25th percentile), theft (31st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 22.
In 2024-25: violent 507 per 100,000 (+6% vs five years earlier); property 2,032 per 100,000 (-9% vs five years earlier); break-ins 296 per 100,000 (-23% vs five years earlier); theft 986 per 100,000 (-3% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 70th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Surf Coast council area is 2.8% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 0.5% of occupied homes (46 public and 24 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 50 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 13 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 12.5% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, South Africa. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.2% (confidence 82 of 100); social housing about 0.5% of homes; about 12.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 12.6% 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 Torquay are those of the Surf Coast 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 | 507 | 204 | +6% |
| Property | 2,032 | 818 | -9% |
| Break-ins | 296 | 119 | -23% |
| Theft | 986 | 397 | -3% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Surf Coast council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3228: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Torquay safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Torquay is in the Surf Coast council area, which recorded 507 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 52% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 58% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Torquay itself is roughly 1,700 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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