Wendouree crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Wendouree is a suburb in the Ballarat council area of Victoria (about 122,661 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 70 out of 100 (high), 67th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Wendouree (10,376 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 1,610 of the offences recorded each year in the Ballarat council area (likely 800 to 2,650), roughly 15,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 230 violent offences (likely 140 to 320). 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 (84th percentile), homicide (82nd percentile), break-ins (77th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 66.
In 2024-25: violent 1,251 per 100,000 (+20% vs five years earlier); property 6,691 per 100,000 (+11% vs five years earlier); break-ins 826 per 100,000 (+5% vs five years earlier); theft 3,685 per 100,000 (+17% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 28th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Ballarat council area is 4.7% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.9% of occupied homes (1,393 public and 338 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 632 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 54.6 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 11.9% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, India, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5.3% (confidence 84 of 100); social housing about 3.6% of homes; about 53.7 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 Wendouree are those of the Ballarat 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 | 1,251 | 1,534 | +20% |
| Property | 6,691 | 8,207 | +11% |
| Break-ins | 826 | 1,013 | +5% |
| Theft | 3,685 | 4,520 | +17% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Ballarat council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3355: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Wendouree safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Wendouree is in the Ballarat council area, which recorded 1,250 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 18% higher than the Victoria rate (1,060) and close to the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Wendouree itself is roughly 15,000 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
Bakery Hill · Ballarat East · Ballarat North · Black Hill · Buninyong · Canadian · Delacombe · Eureka · Lake Gardens · Lucas · Mitchell Park · Mount Pleasant · Newington · Redan · Sebastopol · Wendouree Village
australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/vic/wendouree/ · Australian Crime Map