NSW Recorded Crime Statistics: January 2008 to December 2008
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 2008	Population	Rate per 100,000 population
1	Waverley	327	65,108	502.2
2	Burwood	147	32,860	447.4
3	Strathfield	118	34,580	341.2
4	Botany Bay	116	37,813	306.8
5	Byron	88	30,866	285.1
6	Woollahra	136	53,990	251.9
7	Parramatta	380	157,775	240.8
8	Marrickville	182	76,284	238.6
9	Manly	79	39,677	199.1
10	Auburn	139	70,986	195.8
11	Willoughby	133	68,387	194.5
12	Bourke	6	3,091	194.1
13	Newcastle	284	150,357	188.9
14	Ashfield	71	41,833	169.7
15	Coonamble	7	4,263	164.2
16	Randwick	206	128,435	160.4
17	North Sydney	89	62,842	141.6
18	Leichhardt	73	51,855	140.8
19	Blacktown	378	284,692	132.8
20	Liverpool	223	172,932	129.0
21	Holroyd	119	95,130	125.1
22	Campbelltown	180	147,460	122.1
23	Gosford	194	162,388	119.5
24	Wollongong	227	195,768	116.0
25	Penrith	206	177,686	115.9
26	Moree Plains	16	14,300	111.9
27	Richmond Valley	25	22,471	111.3
28	Wagga Wagga	66	60,857	108.5
29	Albury	53	49,321	107.5
30	Canterbury	148	137,755	107.4
31	Kogarah	58	55,861	103.8
32	Ryde	106	102,609	103.3
33	Lismore	45	44,668	100.7
34	Hurstville	78	77,684	100.4
35	Fairfield	182	187,362	97.1
36	Bankstown	169	179,657	94.1
37	Maitland	62	66,530	93.2
38	Lithgow	19	20,694	91.8
39	Orange	34	37,333	91.1
40	Snowy River	7	7,727	90.6
41	Dubbo	36	39,787	90.5
42	Coffs Harbour	61	68,992	88.4
43	Tenterfield	6	6,834	87.8
44	Murray	6	6,941	86.4
45	Sutherland Shire	183	213,917	85.5
46	Armidale Dumaresq	21	24,684	85.1
47	Great Lakes	29	34,359	84.4
48	Kempsey	24	28,566	84.0
49	Ballina	30	40,932	73.3
50	Queanbeyan	27	38,593	70.0

 

Note: For the rate calculations, population data were obtained from the Australian Bureau of Statistics publication: Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2006-07, Cat. No. 3218.0. As no population estimates were available for 2008 when this report was published, rates for 2008 were calculated using 2007 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.