Crime by mesh block — estimated rates and rank in suburb within 1 km (by gnaf_id) (beta)
/v1/properties/{gnaf_id}/mesh-blocks/crime20¢ per callBeta. The figures behind this topic have not been validated against an independent source, so it is not sold at the same confidence as the other mesh-block topics. Every response says beta: true and carries a beta_notice.
Is this place safe? Estimated crime rates for every mesh block around the property — all crime and eight types, per 100,000 residents a year — with where each block sits among the blocks in its suburb and nationally. From our mesh-block crime model, calibrated in November 2026 so each area's blocks add up to what police recorded there.
One entry per mesh block within 1,000 m of the property under mesh_blocks, nearest first, each with its mb_code, distance_m, population and dwellings. Blocks across suburb lines are included. Values only — the polygons come from /properties/{gnaf_id}/context/mesh-blocks.
Every field carries provenance — measured (at this block), measured_wider_area (measured for the SA1 or postcode and repeated on every block in it), estimate (our model) or not_recorded (not labelled yet) — plus how, one sentence on how the number was arrived at (empty when not_recorded).
Authorization
Request
The only values you send. Fields under Responses below are what comes back — you never pass those.
Path parameters
gnaf_idstringrequiredQuery parameters
Responses
Successful Response
gnaf_idstringalways returnedThe property, as given.
suburbstringmay be nullThe property's suburb (SAL). Blocks across suburb lines are included.
statestringmay be nullState / Territory abbreviation of the property.
radius_mintegeralways returnedRadius around the property, in metres (1,000).
topicstringalways returnedWhich topic this answers.
questionstringalways returnedThe question this topic answers.
betabooleanalways returned`true` when the figures behind this topic have not been validated against an independent source yet.
beta_noticestringmay be nullWhat is unvalidated, on beta topics only.
block_countintegeralways returnedHow many mesh blocks are in `mesh_blocks`.
mesh_blocksarray of PropertyMbTopicBlockalways returnedOne entry per mesh block within `radius_m`, nearest first.
notestringalways returnedHow to read `provenance`.
About this data
What this is
Our estimate of crime around one address, block by block: the total rate and eight offence types per 100,000 residents a year for each mesh block within 1 km, with each block's rank in its suburb and nationally.
What people use it for
- Buyers and renters: see whether the streets right around a home sit at the quiet or busy end of the suburb.
- Buyers' agents: answer "is this street safe" with more than a suburb average.
- AI assistants: a grounded answer to "is this area safe" for a specific address.
Coverage
Mesh blocks nationwide (about 368,000). The 1 km radius crosses suburb lines. A field is null where we hold nothing for that block.
Tips
These are modelled figures, not police counts: each area's blocks are scaled to add up to what state police statistics recorded there, and the spread across blocks is our model. Rates are per resident, so shopping and nightlife blocks read low; blocks under 50 residents have none. For recorded totals use /v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/crime/summary. Check provenance before quoting a field. Whole suburb: /v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/mesh-blocks/crime. Polygons: /v1/properties/{gnaf_id}/context/mesh-blocks, joined on mb_code.
/v1/properties/{gnaf_id}/mesh-blocks/crimecurl --request GET \
--url 'https://api.microburbs.com.au/v1/properties/GANSW704074813/mesh-blocks/crime' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer test'{
"data": {
"gnaf_id": "GANSW704074813",
"suburb": "Belmont North",
"state": "NSW",
"radius_m": 1000,
"topic": "crime",
"question": "Is this place safe?",
"beta": true,
"beta_notice": "Beta: every figure here is our estimate, not a police count. Each area's blocks are scaled to add up to what police recorded for it in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory); how that total is spread across the blocks is our model, and no state publishes it. Rates are per resident, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low, and blocks with fewer than 50 residents are not ranked and have no rates. The eight crime types add up to the total.",
"block_count": 102,
"mesh_blocks": [
{
"mb_code": "10434270000",
"population": 124,
"dwellings": 46,
"fields": {
"crime_rate_total": {
"value": 4236.67,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "All crime",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_violent": {
"value": 1944.71,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Violence",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_property": {
"value": 547.71,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Property crime (theft, break-ins)",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_property_damage": {
"value": 701.74,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Property damage",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_drugs": {
"value": 73.36,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Drug offences",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_public_order": {
"value": 80.98,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Public order offences",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_weapons": {
"value": 24.51,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Weapons offences",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_fraud": {
"value": 574.78,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Fraud",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_other": {
"value": 288.86,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Other offences",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rank_in_suburb_pct": {
"value": 65.52,
"unit": "percentile",
"label": "Where this block sits in its suburb (0 = quietest, 100 = busiest)",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "where our estimate for this block sits among the blocks in its suburb with 50 or more residents."
},
"crime_fifth_in_suburb": {
"value": 4,
"unit": "1-5",
"label": "Which fifth of its suburb this block falls in (1 = quietest, 5 = busiest)",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "where our estimate for this block sits among the blocks in its suburb with 50 or more residents."
},
"crime_suburb_blocks_ranked": {
"value": 59,
"unit": "count",
"label": "Blocks in the suburb it is ranked against",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "where our estimate for this block sits among the blocks in its suburb with 50 or more residents."
},
"crime_rank_national_pct": {
"value": 59.45,
"unit": "percentile",
"label": "Where this block sits nationally (0 = quietest, 100 = busiest)",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low."
},
"crime_suburb_median_total": {
"value": 2850.9,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "All crime, median block in this suburb",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low."
},
"crime_national_median_total": {
"value": 3265.67,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "All crime, median block in Australia",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low."
}
},
"distance_m": 0
},
{
"mb_code": "10434330000",
"population": 89,
"dwellings": 32,
"fields": {
"crime_rate_total": {
"value": 2850.9,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "All crime",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_violent": {
"value": 1037.33,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Violence",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_property": {
"value": 437.76,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Property crime (theft, break-ins)",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_property_damage": {
"value": 447.46,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Property damage",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_drugs": {
"value": 44.58,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Drug offences",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_public_order": {
"value": 68.21,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Public order offences",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_weapons": {
"value": 18.16,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Weapons offences",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_fraud": {
"value": 546.51,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Fraud",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_other": {
"value": 250.9,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Other offences",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rank_in_suburb_pct": {
"value": 34.48,
"unit": "percentile",
"label": "Where this block sits in its suburb (0 = quietest, 100 = busiest)",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "where our estimate for this block sits among the blocks in its suburb with 50 or more residents."
},
"crime_fifth_in_suburb": {
"value": 2,
"unit": "1-5",
"label": "Which fifth of its suburb this block falls in (1 = quietest, 5 = busiest)",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "where our estimate for this block sits among the blocks in its suburb with 50 or more residents."
},
"crime_suburb_blocks_ranked": {
"value": 59,
"unit": "count",
"label": "Blocks in the suburb it is ranked against",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "where our estimate for this block sits among the blocks in its suburb with 50 or more residents."
},
"crime_rank_national_pct": {
"value": 39.36,
"unit": "percentile",
"label": "Where this block sits nationally (0 = quietest, 100 = busiest)",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low."
},
"crime_suburb_median_total": {
"value": 2850.9,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "All crime, median block in this suburb",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low."
},
"crime_national_median_total": {
"value": 3265.67,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "All crime, median block in Australia",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low."
}
},
"distance_m": 15
},
{
"mb_code": "10434440000",
"population": 99,
"dwellings": 34,
"fields": {
"crime_rate_total": {
"value": 3017.78,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "All crime",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_violent": {
"value": 1097.06,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Violence",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_property": {
"value": 460.07,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Property crime (theft, break-ins)",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_property_damage": {
"value": 481.81,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Property damage",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_drugs": {
"value": 49.06,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Drug offences",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_public_order": {
"value": 70.61,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Public order offences",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_weapons": {
"value": 22.84,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Weapons offences",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_fraud": {
"value": 573.97,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Fraud",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rate_other": {
"value": 262.36,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "Other offences",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low. Not given for blocks with fewer than 50 residents: a rate on a tiny population is meaningless."
},
"crime_rank_in_suburb_pct": {
"value": 39.66,
"unit": "percentile",
"label": "Where this block sits in its suburb (0 = quietest, 100 = busiest)",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "where our estimate for this block sits among the blocks in its suburb with 50 or more residents."
},
"crime_fifth_in_suburb": {
"value": 2,
"unit": "1-5",
"label": "Which fifth of its suburb this block falls in (1 = quietest, 5 = busiest)",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "where our estimate for this block sits among the blocks in its suburb with 50 or more residents."
},
"crime_suburb_blocks_ranked": {
"value": 59,
"unit": "count",
"label": "Blocks in the suburb it is ranked against",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "where our estimate for this block sits among the blocks in its suburb with 50 or more residents."
},
"crime_rank_national_pct": {
"value": 42.3,
"unit": "percentile",
"label": "Where this block sits nationally (0 = quietest, 100 = busiest)",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low."
},
"crime_suburb_median_total": {
"value": 2850.9,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "All crime, median block in this suburb",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low."
},
"crime_national_median_total": {
"value": 3265.67,
"unit": "incidents per 100,000 residents a year",
"label": "All crime, median block in Australia",
"provenance": "estimate",
"how": "our estimate: a model of how crime is spread across the blocks of each area, scaled so the blocks add up to what police recorded for the area in the latest year published (the suburb in most states, the council area in Tasmania, the police region in the Northern Territory). Counted against the people who live here, so busy shopping and nightlife blocks read low."
}
},
"distance_m": 56
}
],
"note": "Each field says how its number was arrived at. An estimate is not a measurement, and a figure measured for a wider area is not a measurement of the block."
}
}