Is Parramatta safe? What the numbers say

The short answer

Parramatta's raw counts sit high for a second CBD, with a slight rise against the prior year on this stub dataset.. The detail below comes from BOCSAR's recorded incident data for July 2025 to June 2026 (stub period), and like all recorded crime data it needs reading with care, the notes at the bottom explain how.

What the data shows

Parramatta recorded 6,820 criminal incidents in July 2025 to June 2026 (stub period). The largest categories were stealing, malicious damage, break and enter. Against the same period last year, recorded incidents were up about one percent.

About Parramatta

Parramatta is Sydney's second CBD and carries a workload to match: a major commercial centre, one of the country's busiest retail precincts, courts and government offices, a transport interchange, and a construction pipeline that has run for a decade. Like any centre with a large daytime and visitor population, its raw incident counts sit high without saying much about risk to any single premises. The mix points where you would expect, retail offences around the shopping core and property offences against premises after hours, and the local security work follows: retail guarding, corporate coverage, construction site security and overnight patrols.

What local businesses use security for

Retail security, corporate security, construction site security and mobile patrols are the usual Parramatta mix. The Parramatta suburb hub lists licensed companies serving the area.

How to read this data

Recorded incidents are those reported to and recorded by police, which understates some offence types. Raw counts run high in suburbs with large daytime or visitor populations without meaning any one person or premises faces unusual risk. Use the mix and the trend, not the headline total.

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