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Safest suburbs in Melbourne

Ranked on recorded offences per 1,000 residents, from official statistics.

How this is ranked. Purely the safety score: recorded offences per 1,000 residents from the official crime statistics agency, converted to a percentile against every other suburb in the city. Nothing else is mixed in. 216 of 216 Melbourne suburbs had enough data to be ranked. Updated August 2026.
#SuburbOffences per 1,000Safety score
1Montmorency12.8100
2Eltham North14.299
3Gowanbrae15.899
4Briar Hill16.198
5Burnside Heights17.198
6Viewbank17.597
7Yallambie19.597
8Keilor Lodge17.497
9Taylors Hill20.496
10Seabrook24.096
11Templestowe Lower24.595
12Templestowe24.795
13Mont Albert North25.394
14Doncaster East25.494
15McKinnon25.793
16Avondale Heights25.693
17Lower Plenty26.092
18Blackburn North26.492
19Macleod28.791
20St Helena27.791
21Yarrambat26.891
22Balwyn North29.590
23Diamond Creek29.190
24Bentleigh East29.989
25Clarinda30.188

Showing the top 25 of 216 ranked suburbs. Scores are percentiles against every other suburb in Melbourne: 100 is the best in the city, 50 is mid-table. Click any suburb for its full profile.

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Sources: open GPS activity traces, official crime statistics, ABS census, OpenStreetMap (ODbL). No ranking on this site is sold or sponsored.
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