Victoria Crime by Suburb: Counts & Council Rates (2026)

TL;DR: Use the suburb table for recorded offence counts and the council table for population-based incident rates. CSA’s June 2026 release puts the City of Melbourne at 16,944.4 criminal incidents per 100,000 residents. Neither measure is a household probability: compare like periods and categories, then review your own doors, garage and keys.

Search your suburb or postcode now · View council incident rates. The suburb table reports counts, not population rates.

Author: Daniel Tang · Published: 24 July 2026 · Updated: 6 November 2026 · Reviewed sources: Crime Statistics Agency Victoria original workbooks and DataVic catalogue, year ending June 2026.

How is crime measured by area in Victoria?

The CSA recorded-offences workbook covers the year ending June 2026. Its suburb table reports counts, while the separate criminal-incidents workbook provides council rates per 100,000 population. An incident can contain several offences, so an offence count and an incident rate should never be treated as interchangeable measures.

The suburb totals below are exact sums of published offence-count cells for each suburb, postcode and LGA combination. Burglary uses the published B30 Burglary/Break and enter subdivision, including residential and non-residential categories. B20 means property damage in this release; it is not burglary. No suburb population rate has been calculated.

CSA’s confidentiality rules group sensitive offences under “Other crimes against the person” at this level. The workbook explains its treatment of small sensitive counts and excludes justice institutions, immigration facilities, Unincorporated Victoria and unknown locations from the suburb table. These totals describe the published dataset and should not be mistaken for an unrestricted census of every offence.

For practical action after the area check, the wireless driveway alarm guide explains how to assess an approach to a parked car. Locks, visibility and key storage still matter regardless of the area’s position in a comparison. A number gives context; an entry inspection identifies something you can change.

Download and reproduce the snapshot

Download all 2,605 displayed suburb rows (CSV) or the 10 displayed council rows (CSV). These are readable copies of this page, not the full CSA workbooks. Both use the year ending June 2026; the files used here were archived on 27 October 2026.

1. In the original LGA Recorded Offences workbook, open Table 03 and keep Year = 2026 and year ending June.
2. Group by the original suburb, postcode and LGA together. Sum published Offence Count cells for the total; for burglary, include only subdivision B30 Burglary/Break and enter.
3. Keep a missing burglary row as “Not listed”; do not manufacture a zero. Do not divide by an inferred suburb population.
4. For the separate council table, use Table 01 of LGA Criminal Incidents, year ending June 2026. Read its count and published population rate together.

Daniel Tang maintains this guide. The next data update requires a new CSA release or revision, a same-period source check and matching changes to the downloadable tables. The article update date is separate from the data period; it does not turn June’s figures into November observations.

Which areas have the highest rates?

The City of Melbourne has the highest published council criminal-incident rate in this release. Latrobe and Yarra follow it in the council table, which is ordered by the official incident rate. This is a comparison of council areas over the same annual period, not a comparison of individual suburbs or homes.

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Source: CSA LGA Criminal Incidents, Table 01. Council rates use resident population. Visitors, commuters, shops and entertainment precincts can affect where incidents happen without adding to the resident denominator. A high rate therefore does not translate directly into the chance that a resident’s home will be burgled.

Check your suburb

Search by suburb, postcode or council to find the published offence counts for the year ending June 2026. The complete set of suburb/postcode/LGA combinations in the latest-year sheet is included, rather than a selected Melbourne sample. A suburb crossing a council boundary can appear more than once; each row retains its original geography.

Total recorded offences sums the published rows, including the grouped sensitive categories. Burglary/break and enter sums B30 rows only. “Not listed” means the file has no B30 row for that combination; we have not replaced that absence with a guessed zero. The figures are counts, not rates per 100,000 and not numbers of victims.

Worked lookup: Footscray 3011

Enter Footscray 3011 in the search below, then check that the row names Maribyrnong as its LGA. The CSA Table 03 snapshot gives this combination 4,397 total recorded offences and 289 B30 burglary/break-and-enter offences for the year ending June 2026; neither number is a population rate or a count of homes burgled.

Searching only “Footscray” also finds West Footscray, so retain the postcode and LGA when choosing a row. Words entered together narrow the search to rows containing all of them; clearing the field restores every row. When saving or sharing a result, copy the suburb, postcode, LGA, offence category and period alongside the count.

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