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3352 · Ballarat · 82 residents
Blowhard, is a rural locality 17.7 kilometres (11.0 mi) north-west of Ballarat, in western Victoria, Australia. It is located between Creswick and Learmonth. Blowhard is a small locality — too few residents for its own AusScore, so it takes the overall grade of Ballarat council. It still has minimal 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 82 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 24 to 37 per 1,000 residents in Blowhard (down from a 98 peak in 2019). That leaves it 29% above the typical Victorian suburb — a genuine concern for residents and local businesses. 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 Ballarat and is not part of this suburb's AusScore— it's shown here as council context. The grade compares Ballarat with the median Victorian council.
Youth offending in Ballarat council has risen from 5.1 to 6.3 alleged offenders aged 10–17 per 1,000 residents over the decade, having bottomed out at 2.6 in 2021. Since that low it has climbed about 140% — 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.
Sale prices aren't reported separately here — these are figures for Bonshaw, the nearest reported locality in the same postcode.
Each figure is the annual median— the middle sale price across all sales in that calendar year, so one unusually high or low sale can't skew it (we use the latest full year). The Valuer-General reports sale prices by property type, not by bedrooms. Source: Victorian Property Sales Report, Valuer-General Victoria — © State of Victoria, reused under CC BY 3.0 AU.
Public-transport lines within a 1 km walk and how well each mode is served.
0 public transport linesreachable within a 1 km walk.
Closest train station: Wendouree Station · 13.4 km away
Official government primary and secondary school catchment zones covering this suburb.