Yackandandah crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria

Yackandandah is a suburb in the Indigo council area of Victoria (about 17,758 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 26 out of 100 (low), 307th 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 homicide (86th percentile), sexual offences (37th percentile), break-ins (21st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 19.

In 2024-25: violent 518 per 100,000 (+29% vs five years earlier); property 2,010 per 100,000 (+5% vs five years earlier); break-ins 259 per 100,000 (-40% vs five years earlier); theft 918 per 100,000 (-3% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 68th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Indigo council area is 2.5% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.6% of occupied homes (80 public and 24 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 19 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 11 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 9.2% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, Germany. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 2.8% (confidence 78 of 100); social housing about 1.4% of homes; about 10.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 9.3% 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 Yackandandah are those of the Indigo council area.

Indigo council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Nearby suburbs

Barnawartha · Beechworth · Boorhaman North · Brimin · Browns Plains · Bruarong · Carlyle · Charleroi · Chiltern · Chiltern Valley · Cornishtown · Gooramadda · Huon · Indigo Valley · Murmungee · Rutherglen · Sandy Creek · Stanley · Wahgunyah · Wooragee

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