Wheelers Hill crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Wheelers Hill is a suburb in the Monash council area of Victoria (about 211,833 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 48 out of 100 (moderate), 185th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Wheelers Hill (20,652 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 750 of the offences recorded each year in the Monash council area (likely 370 to 1,230), roughly 3,600 per 100,000 residents, including about 65 violent offences (likely 39 to 91). 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 (84th percentile), homicide (68th percentile), break-ins (67th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 46.
In 2024-25: violent 654 per 100,000 (+3% vs five years earlier); property 5,299 per 100,000 (+29% vs five years earlier); break-ins 709 per 100,000 (+29% vs five years earlier); theft 3,258 per 100,000 (+33% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 62nd of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Monash council area is 5.8% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.1% of occupied homes (1,081 public and 341 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 1,687 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 86.6 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 52.5% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in China, India, Sri Lanka. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 6.5% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 2% of homes; about 85.1 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 53.3% 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 Wheelers Hill are those of the Monash 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 | 654 | 1,385 | +3% |
| Property | 5,299 | 11,224 | +29% |
| Break-ins | 709 | 1,502 | +29% |
| Theft | 3,258 | 6,902 | +33% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Monash council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3150: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Wheelers Hill safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Wheelers Hill is in the Monash council area, which recorded 654 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 38% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 46% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Wheelers Hill itself is roughly 3,600 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
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