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3228 · Surf Coast · 151 residents
Bells Beach is a locality in Surf Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia. It is a popular surf beach, located 100 km (62 mi) south-west of Melbourne, on the Great Ocean Road near the towns of Torquay and Jan Juc. Bells Beach is a small locality — too few residents for its own AusScore, so it takes the overall grade of Surf Coast council. It still has very good public transport and 3 school zones.
Recorded offences per 1,000 residents, graded against the Victorian median. Lower is safer.
Grades use a 3-year averagerate, so one unusually quiet or busy year can't swing the result. With only 151 residents here, a handful of incidents still moves the rate a lot — read these with that in mind.
Offences per 1,000 residents over the last decade, against the Victorian median. A line below the dashed median means this suburb is safer than the typical Victorian suburb.
Over the past decade, property & deception offences — the bulk of recorded crime — eased from 205 to 13 per 1,000 residents in Bells Beach (down from a 205 peak in 2016). That keeps it 53% below the typical Victorian suburb — a reassuring sign for anyone living here. Most safety measures here have worsened over ten years.
Recorded offences in the latest year.
Alleged offenders aged 10–17 per 1,000 residents, against the Victorian average. The Crime Statistics Agency reports this by council, not by suburb, so it covers all of Surf Coast and is not part of this suburb's AusScore— it's shown here as council context. The grade compares Surf Coast with the median Victorian council.
Youth offending in Surf Coast council has risen from 1.5 to 2.7 alleged offenders aged 10–17 per 1,000 residents over the decade, having bottomed out at 0.9 in 2018. Since that low it has climbed about 204% — a worrying reversal that mirrors the statewide trend.
Nearest police station, hospital, ambulance and fire facilities to this suburb.
The nearest of each — distance shown when it’s outside the suburb (measured straight-line from the centre).
GP and private medical clinics are not published as open government data, so they are not shown.
Rents aren't reported separately here — these are figures for Torquay, the nearest reported locality in the same postcode.
Median weekly rent across all rentals. Source: DFFH Rental Report (Residential Tenancies Bond Authority) — © State of Victoria, reused under CC BY 4.0.
Public-transport lines within a 1 km walk and how well each mode is served.
1 public transport linereachable within a 1 km walk.
Closest train station: Waurn Ponds Station · 22.2 km away
Official government primary and secondary school catchment zones covering this suburb.