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3412 · West Wimmera · 295 residents
Goroke is a town in the Wimmera region of Victoria. The town is, 370 kilometres (230 mi) north west of the state capital, Melbourne. Goroke earns a AusScore of 67 (B) — strong overall liveability. It combines average crime levels and reasonable public transport. 4 school zones fall within its boundaries.
Everyday amenities that lift the score
Recorded crime that lowers the score
Safety-weighted, so a very safe suburb with modest amenity outranks a high-amenity suburb with severe crime. Full methodology
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 295 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 — climbed from 10 to 27 per 1,000 residents in Goroke, and now sit at a ten-year high. That sits right around the typical Victorian suburb. The picture is mixed across the three measures.
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 West Wimmera and is not part of this suburb's AusScore— it's shown here as council context. The grade compares West Wimmera with the median Victorian council.
Youth offending in West Wimmera council has fallen from 1.8 to 0.0 alleged offenders aged 10–17 per 1,000 residents over the decade, having bottomed out at 0.0 in 2017. It currently sits near its lowest point of the decade — a positive sign for the community.
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.
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: Ararat Station · 167.7 km away
Official government primary and secondary school catchment zones covering this suburb.
Everyday amenities near the suburb centre, from the Vicmap government registers — these feed the parks, retail and family parts of the AusScore.