Yering crime rate and Crime Score · Victoria
Yering is a suburb in the Yarra Ranges council area of Victoria (about 160,906 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 33 out of 100 (low), 279th 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 (60th percentile), robbery (60th percentile), sexual offences (41st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 38.
In 2024-25: violent 766 per 100,000 (+9% vs five years earlier); property 2,582 per 100,000 (-14% vs five years earlier); break-ins 333 per 100,000 (-15% vs five years earlier); theft 1,260 per 100,000 (-9% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 54th of 79 Victoria councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Yarra Ranges council area is 3.5% (Victoria 5%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1% of occupied homes (424 public and 146 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Victoria 2.5%). An estimated 418 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 26.6 per 10,000 residents (Victoria 47.1), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 17.5% of residents were born overseas (Victoria 31.6%), most often in England, New Zealand, Netherlands. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 0.9% of homes; about 26.1 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 17.8% 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 Yering are those of the Yarra Ranges 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 | 766 | 1,232 | +9% |
| Property | 2,582 | 4,155 | -14% |
| Break-ins | 333 | 536 | -15% |
| Theft | 1,260 | 2,028 | -9% |
Yarra Ranges council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 3770: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Yering safe?
Victoria publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Yering is in the Yarra Ranges council area, which recorded 766 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2024-25, about 28% lower than the Victoria rate (1,060) and about 37% lower than the national rate (1,220). 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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