Clyde North had the biggest jump in criminal incidents and offences recorded from 2024 to the year ending in March 2025, amongst the top five suburbs in the City of Casey.
Criminal incidents saw a 41.5 per cent increase from 2024’s 1301 incidents to 2025’s 1841.
As for recorded offences, the suburb saw a 42.8 per cent increase from 2024’s 1705 figure to this year’s 2435.
Clyde, while not in Casey’s top five, has also recorded an increase in recorded offences, with 1055 so far in 2025, a small, but still notable increase of 29.6 per cent compared to 2024’s figure of 814.
Recently, an incident in the Pembrokeshire Loop in Clyde has rocked the new neighbourhood, after police reports of stabbings and a shot fired woke..
Recently, an incident that involved two groups spilled out into the street, with police reports of stabbings and a shot fired rocking the neighbourhood at two in the morning.
One resident, who requested to remain anonymous and reflecting on the incident’s impact, said, “it’s terrifying”.
“It’s scary now because we have kids, you know? Even my neighbour was telling me that they and their children were terrified.
“For the children especially, but for everyone – over the weekend, at night, we can’t just go out because we don’t know if those kinds of people are going to be around,” they said.
Going back to the night of the event, they added that “we heard the noise, there was screaming and yelling, and then we saw people running on the street”.
“We were watching from upstairs, and then they hit one of the cars; they were just fighting, but we also knew that they were going around.
“Basically, the whole street was woken up, usually this place is very quiet, and everyone is new here, you know? Mostly just around two years,” they said.
Taking a deeper look into the types of crimes committed, property and deception offences are on top for Clyde North, with 1547 incidents in 2025, a 51 per cent increase from the 1024 figure in 2024.
In this category, theft is the most dominant crime, with 965 incidents, up 49.1 per cent from 2024’s figure of 647.
Following theft, there’s a drastic fall-off with the second-most common crime, as burglaries and break-ins tack on 313 incidents.
However, this figure is still a 71 per cent jump from 2024’s figure of 183 incidents, following a similar increasing pattern in the suburb.
After this is property damage, with 178 incidents in 2025, only a small increase from 2024’s figure of 134.
Crimes against a person were the next largest category, with a total of 474 incidents in 2025, also an increase of 50 per cent from the previous year’s number of 314.
In this category, the biggest outlier is assault and related offences, with 268 incidents in 2025, a 36.7 per cent increase from the previous year’s total of 196.
The third highest category is justice procedures offences, with 311 incidents, up 15.1 per cent from 2024, which tacked on 270.
In this category, order breaches were dominant, but maintained a steady increase from 2024’s figure of 252, to 2025’s figure of 287; this is also lower than the figure in 2023, which was at 395, making it an outlier compared to the other types that have seen gradual increase throughout the years.
Both Clyde North and Clyde have seen a rapid increase in growth over the last few years, as more residents trickle into new, fast-growing estates in Casey’s eastern border.
