NSW Recorded Crime Statistics: January 2007 to December 2007
Top 50 Local Government Areas ranked by rate of recorded criminal incidents
LGAs with population under 3000, Sydney LGA and LGAs without the offence have been excluded.
 

Rank	Local Government Area	Offences in 2007	Population	Rate per 100,000 population
1	Burwood	194	31,387	618.1
2	Waverley	324	62,194	521.0
3	Botany Bay	154	37,415	411.6
4	Byron	106	30,898	343.1
5	Parramatta	516	155,098	332.7
6	Strathfield	108	32,529	332.0
7	Manly	128	39,214	326.4
8	Auburn	191	66,286	288.1
9	Willoughby	168	65,029	258.3
10	Woollahra	135	53,033	254.6
11	Newcastle	296	147,545	200.6
12	Marrickville	149	76,524	194.7
13	North Sydney	119	61,802	192.6
14	Bourke	7	3,876	180.6
15	Leichhardt	92	51,660	178.1
16	Randwick	222	127,948	173.5
17	Ashfield	59	40,262	146.5
18	Campbelltown	216	148,969	145.0
19	Penrith	253	177,544	142.5
20	Wagga Wagga	82	58,802	139.5
21	Lismore	60	44,032	136.3
22	Snowy River	10	7,359	135.9
23	Wollongong	261	192,131	135.8
24	Blacktown	379	287,634	131.8
25	Moree Plains	20	15,991	125.1
26	Gosford	194	163,469	118.7
27	Orange	45	37,982	118.5
28	Liverpool	203	172,050	118.0
29	Holroyd	108	94,269	114.6
30	Albury	53	47,694	111.1
31	Bankstown	197	179,719	109.6
32	Fairfield	205	188,074	109.0
33	Coffs Harbour	73	68,315	106.9
34	Cootamundra	8	7,645	104.6
35	Dubbo	40	39,500	101.3
36	Hurstville	73	76,623	95.3
37	Ballina	37	40,090	92.3
38	Warren	3	3,252	92.3
39	Canada Bay	62	68,955	89.9
40	Maitland	56	62,596	89.5
41	Ryde	89	100,351	88.7
42	Queanbeyan	33	37,848	87.2
43	Canterbury	118	135,969	86.8
44	Great Lakes	30	35,068	85.5
45	Coonamble	4	4,699	85.1
46	Kogarah	48	56,736	84.6
47	Rockdale	80	96,409	83.0
48	Sutherland Shire	171	214,030	79.9
49	Pittwater	43	57,944	74.2
50	Armidale Dumaresq	18	24,749	72.7

 
Note: For the rate calculations, population data were obtained from the Australian Bureau of Statistics publication: Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2005-06, Cat. No. 3218.0. As no population estimates were available for 2006 when this report was published, rates for 2007 were calculated using 2006 population estimates.

* LGAs with populations lower than 3000 are excluded because rate calculations for these areas are very sensitive to small changes in population sizes and the number of incidents recorded. Rate calculations should also be treated very cautiously for LGAs that have high visitor numbers relative to their residential population. This is because rate calculations are based on estimated residential population and no adjustment has been made for the number of people visiting each LGA per year.