Turoar crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Turoar is a suburb in the Swan Hill council area of Victoria (about 20,962 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 65 out of 100 (high), 95th 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 assault (71st percentile), homicide (90th percentile), sexual offences (77th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 72.
In 2024-25: violent 1,598 per 100,000 (+8% vs five years earlier); property 4,289 per 100,000 (-2% vs five years earlier); break-ins 463 per 100,000 (-27% vs five years earlier); theft 2,047 per 100,000 (+4% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 14th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Swan Hill council area is 3.5% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 5.2% of occupied homes (324 public and 75 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 232 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 109.7 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 18.3% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in Malaysia, Vietnam, India. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.9% (confidence 79 of 100); social housing about 4.8% of homes; about 107.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 18.6% 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 Turoar are those of the Swan Hill 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 | 1,598 | 335 | +8% |
| Property | 4,289 | 899 | -2% |
| Break-ins | 463 | 97 | -27% |
| Theft | 2,047 | 429 | +4% |
Swan Hill council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3546: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Turoar safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Turoar is in the Swan Hill council area, which recorded 1,600 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 51% higher than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 31% higher than the national rate (1,220). 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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