Yelta crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Yelta is a suburb in the Mildura council area of Victoria (about 57,309 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 81 out of 100 (very high), 23rd of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Yelta (325 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 32 of the offences recorded each year in the Mildura council area (likely 16 to 53), roughly 9,900 per 100,000 residents, including about 2 violent offences (likely 1 to 4). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 31 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 assault (71st percentile), homicide (85th percentile), break-ins (84th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 79.
In 2024-25: violent 1,848 per 100,000 (+4% vs five years earlier); property 7,180 per 100,000 (+26% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,009 per 100,000 (+2% vs five years earlier); theft 3,642 per 100,000 (+43% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 10th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Mildura council area is 5.2% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 4.1% of occupied homes (698 public and 176 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 344 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 60.4 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 14.9% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in Malaysia, England, India. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5.8% (confidence 83 of 100); social housing about 3.8% of homes; about 59.4 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 15.1% 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 Yelta are those of the Mildura 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 | 1,848 | 1,059 | +4% |
| Property | 7,180 | 4,115 | +26% |
| Break-ins | 1,009 | 578 | +2% |
| Theft | 3,642 | 2,087 | +43% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Mildura council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3505: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Yelta safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Yelta is in the Mildura council area, which recorded 1,850 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 75% higher than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 52% higher than the national rate (1,220). A modelled estimate for Yelta itself is roughly 9,900 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.
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australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/vic/yelta/ · Australian Crime Map