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Safest suburbs in Sydney

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. 420 of 422 Sydney suburbs had enough data to be ranked. Updated August 2026.

#	Suburb	Offences per 1,000	Safety score
1	Westleigh	5.6	100
2	Willoughby East	5.4	100
3	Yarrawarrah	7.6	99
4	Voyager Point	7.2	99
5	North Wahroonga	7.6	99
6	East Killara	7.3	99
7	Gymea Bay	9.2	98
8	Padstow Heights	9.7	98
9	Glenhaven	9.5	98
10	East Lindfield	9.2	98
11	North Balgowlah	8.4	98
12	Elanora Heights	10.5	97
13	North Turramurra	10.3	97
14	South Turramurra	10.3	97
15	Castlecrag	10.5	97
16	Oyster Bay	11.2	96
17	Breakfast Point	11.1	96
18	Wheeler Heights	11.1	96
19	Riverview	11.1	96
20	Grays Point	11.5	95
21	St Ives Chase	11.6	95
22	West Pennant Hills	11.4	95
23	North Curl Curl	11.4	95
24	Beaumont Hills	12.2	94
25	Cherrybrook	12.3	94

Showing the top 25 of 420 ranked suburbs. Scores are percentiles against every other suburb in Sydney: 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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