Westmeadows crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Westmeadows is a suburb in the Hume council area of Victoria (about 278,885 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 54 out of 100 (moderate), 147th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Westmeadows (6,502 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 830 of the offences recorded each year in the Hume council area (likely 410 to 1,370), roughly 13,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 89 violent offences (likely 54 to 120). 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 robbery (85th percentile), homicide (70th percentile), theft (81st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 64.
In 2024-25: violent 1,023 per 100,000 (-3% vs five years earlier); property 4,958 per 100,000 (+7% vs five years earlier); break-ins 480 per 100,000 (-20% vs five years earlier); theft 2,771 per 100,000 (+21% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 37th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Hume council area is 7.5% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.4% of occupied homes (1,561 public and 241 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 1,148 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 45.4 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 42% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in India, Iraq, Turkey. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 8.4% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 2.2% of homes; about 44.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 42.6% 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 Westmeadows are those of the Hume 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 | 1,023 | 2,854 | -3% |
| Property | 4,958 | 13,826 | +7% |
| Break-ins | 480 | 1,338 | -20% |
| Theft | 2,771 | 7,729 | +21% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Hume council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3049: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Westmeadows safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Westmeadows is in the Hume council area, which recorded 1,020 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, close to the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 16% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Westmeadows itself is roughly 13,000 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.
Police news near Westmeadows
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