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3361 · Corangamite · 609 residents
Skipton is a town in the Western District of Victoria, Australia. The town is situated on the Glenelg Highway 166 kilometres west of the state capital, Melbourne and 52 kilometres south west of the regional centre, Ballarat. Skipton earns a AusScore of 66 (B) — strong overall liveability. Its standout strength is very good public transport. 3 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 609 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 16 to 41 per 1,000 residents in Skipton, and now sit at a ten-year high. That leaves it 45% 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 Corangamite and is not part of this suburb's AusScore— it's shown here as council context. The grade compares Corangamite with the median Victorian council.
Youth offending in Corangamite council has fallen from 3.0 to 1.9 alleged offenders aged 10–17 per 1,000 residents over the decade, having bottomed out at 0.6 in 2020. Since that low it has climbed about 232% — 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.
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: Beaufort Station · 38 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.