Williams Landing crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Williams Landing is a suburb in the Wyndham council area of Victoria (about 347,830 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 49 out of 100 (moderate), 177th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Williams Landing (9,448 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 530 of the offences recorded each year in the Wyndham council area (likely 260 to 880), roughly 5,600 per 100,000 residents, including about 49 violent offences (likely 30 to 69). 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 (89th percentile), homicide (66th percentile), break-ins (54th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 45.
In 2024-25: violent 830 per 100,000 (+6% vs five years earlier); property 4,669 per 100,000 (+27% vs five years earlier); break-ins 674 per 100,000 (+50% vs five years earlier); theft 2,750 per 100,000 (+26% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 48th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Wyndham council area is 6.8% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1% of occupied homes (643 public and 219 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 1,046 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 33.9 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 50.6% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in India, New Zealand, Philippines. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 7.6% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 0.9% of homes; about 33.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 51.4% 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 Williams Landing are those of the Wyndham 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 | 830 | 2,886 | +6% |
| Property | 4,669 | 16,239 | +27% |
| Break-ins | 674 | 2,346 | +50% |
| Theft | 2,750 | 9,566 | +26% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Wyndham council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3027: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Williams Landing safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Williams Landing is in the Wyndham council area, which recorded 830 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 22% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 32% lower than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Williams Landing itself is roughly 5,600 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
Cocoroc · Derrimut · Hoppers Crossing · Laverton North · Mambourin · Mount Cottrell · Point Cook · Quandong · Tarneit · Truganina · Werribee · Werribee South · Wyndham Vale
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