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Compare Melbourne areas using official recorded-theft rates, with source-linked safety context for a trip or move.
Safrom's citywide research estimate is 85/100. Higher scores mean safer on the model's scale. Evidence as of . Confidence: D.
31 areas with estimates. Area evidence as of .
recorded_thefts_per_100000_residents · 2025-07-01 / 2026-06-30.
The local layer compares police-recorded theft (CSA B40) per 100,000 residents during July 2025–June 2026. It varies the property dimension only. These are 31 local government areas covering metropolitan Melbourne, not street or suburb boundaries. The partially metropolitan Mitchell LGA is excluded rather than assigning whole-LGA crime to its southern portion. Resident-based rates can be elevated in the CBD by visitors and commuters. Offence counts measure recorded offences, not people victimised or risk per visit. CSA Table 02 excludes justice institutions, immigration facilities, unincorporated Victoria and unknown locations. Rates are summed across mutually exclusive B40 subgroups using the published LGA rate column. The city score uses existing Australia country research priors; the remaining six local dimensions retain those priors. ABS LGA boundaries are statistical approximations of local government boundaries.
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The local layer compares police-recorded theft (CSA B40) per 100,000 residents during July 2025–June 2026. It varies the property dimension only. These are 31 local government areas covering metropolitan Melbourne, not street or suburb boundaries. The partially metropolitan Mitchell LGA is excluded rather than assigning whole-LGA crime to its southern portion. Resident-based rates can be elevated in the CBD by visitors and commuters. Offence counts measure recorded offences, not people victimised or risk per visit. CSA Table 02 excludes justice institutions, immigration facilities, unincorporated Victoria and unknown locations. Rates are summed across mutually exclusive B40 subgroups using the published LGA rate column. The city score uses existing Australia country research priors; the remaining six local dimensions retain those priors. ABS LGA boundaries are statistical approximations of local government boundaries.
Boundaries: Australian Bureau of Statistics · ABS ASGS Local Government Areas 2025 (CC BY 4.0).
The local layer compares police-recorded theft (CSA B40) per 100,000 residents during July 2025–June 2026. It varies the property dimension only. These are 31 local government areas covering metropolitan Melbourne, not street or suburb boundaries. The partially metropolitan Mitchell LGA is excluded rather than assigning whole-LGA crime to its southern portion. Resident-based rates can be elevated in the CBD by visitors and commuters. Offence counts measure recorded offences, not people victimised or risk per visit. CSA Table 02 excludes justice institutions, immigration facilities, unincorporated Victoria and unknown locations. Rates are summed across mutually exclusive B40 subgroups using the published LGA rate column. The city score uses existing Australia country research priors; the remaining six local dimensions retain those priors. ABS LGA boundaries are statistical approximations of local government boundaries.
alerts are not long-term baseline risk; event footprint may not equal traveler exposure; alert severity cannot be copied directly into Safrom score
country-level only; humanitarian risk framing differs from traveler exposure; composite inputs can overlap Safrom dimensions; current event conditions require separate signals
country-level only; reporting and justice-system differences; latest year differs by country; not traveler-specific
country-level only; availability does not measure emergency accessibility; latest year differs by country; distribution within a country is hidden
country-level only; collection is not annual for every country; some values are modeled estimates; resident exposure differs from traveler exposure
does not isolate Sydney; advisory level is not an absolute safety score; does not quantify tourist-area property crime; U.S.-traveler perspective
country-level only; modeled perceptions rather than traveler incidents; cannot represent neighborhood variation or current events; confidence intervals must not be discarded
The local layer compares police-recorded theft (CSA B40) per 100,000 residents during July 2025–June 2026. It varies the property dimension only.; These are 31 local government areas covering metropolitan Melbourne, not street or suburb boundaries. The partially metropolitan Mitchell LGA is excluded rather than assigning whole-LGA crime to its southern portion.; Resident-based rates can be elevated in the CBD by visitors and commuters. Offence counts measure recorded offences, not people victimised or risk per visit.; CSA Table 02 excludes justice institutions, immigration facilities, unincorporated Victoria and unknown locations. Rates are summed across mutually exclusive B40 subgroups using the published LGA rate column.; CC BY 4.0. Crime Statistics Agency, Victoria; aggregation and research transformation by Safrom.