--- title: "24120 – APN Sentinel™ (Safety & Sentiment Index)" url: https://australianproperty.network/apn-codex/series-20000/series-24000/series-24100/series-24120/ date: 2026-01-16 modified: 2026-10-12 lang: en author: "" description: "APN Codex Node 2412024100 Series — Social Capital, Sentinel BranchCertified APN Sentinel™ (Safety & Sentiment Index) Localities (N) 6,765 National Mean 48.17 Std Dev 13.99 Range 7.40–87.80 Statistics on this..." word_count: 602 --- # 24120 – APN Sentinel™ (Safety & Sentiment Index) APN Codex Node 2412024100 Series — Social Capital, Sentinel BranchCertified ### APN Sentinel™ (Safety & Sentiment Index) Localities (N)6,765 National Mean48.17 Std Dev13.99 Range7.40–87.80 Statistics on this page describe the 6,765 scored localities with more than 200 residents. 14,246 localities are scored in all. 1What It Measures APN Sentinel™ is one of five pillars in the APN Social Capital Index™, measuring safety and social cohesion from six components: violent and property crime risk, civic engagement (bonding capital), housing tenure security, demographic pressure, and acute vulnerability. Equal-weighted mean of six components (24121–24126), with the weight shared equally across the components available for each locality. A locality needs at least four of the six. 2Composite Construction [24121 →Violent Crime RiskMean **52.41** · SD **28.25**](https://australianproperty.network/apn-codex/series-20000/series-24000/series-24100/series-24120/series-24121/) [24122 →Property Crime RiskMean **46.98** · SD **29.52**](https://australianproperty.network/apn-codex/series-20000/series-24000/series-24100/series-24120/series-24122/) [24123 →Bonding Capital (Civic Engagement)Mean **50.00** · SD **28.87**](https://australianproperty.network/apn-codex/series-20000/series-24000/series-24100/series-24120/series-24123/) [24124 →Housing Security & ChurnMean **46.99** · SD **20.49**](https://australianproperty.network/apn-codex/series-20000/series-24000/series-24100/series-24120/series-24124/) [24125 →Demographic Tension IndexMean **49.95** · SD **12.18**](https://australianproperty.network/apn-codex/series-20000/series-24000/series-24100/series-24120/24125-demographic-tension-index/) [24126 →Acute Vulnerability Index™Mean **42.62** · SD **18.98**](https://australianproperty.network/apn-codex/series-20000/series-24000/series-24100/series-24120/series-24126/) [MAP →Interactive Locality Map6,765 localities over 200 residents · click to explore](https://australianproperty.network/apn-codex/series-20000/series-24000/series-24100/series-24120/map/) Each component is a national percentile score. Four are ranked across every scored locality, including those with 200 residents or fewer; Bonding Capital and the Demographic Tension Index are ranked against localities with more than 200 residents. The means shown are for localities with more than 200 residents, so a mean below 50 shows that larger localities read lower on that component than smaller ones. 3National Distribution N6,765 Mean48.17 Std Dev13.99 Min7.40 Max87.80 Distribution 24120 Score — 6,765 Localities Over 200 Residents 4Component Comparison Component Means National Mean Score by Component 5Data & Coverage Notes Disclosed limits **Crime risk (24121, 24122):** recorded crime is read at the grain each police service publishes: council area in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania; police district in Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory; and a mix of council areas and districts in the Northern Territory. Every locality in a unit carries the unit’s rate. Rates are offences per 100,000 residents on the ABS estimated resident population at 30 June 2025, with the same offences counted in every jurisdiction. The reference period is the year to March 2026, except in South Australia (2024–25) and Tasmania (2022–23). **Demographic Tension Index (24125):** one of its four measures, population growth, is read at district (SA2) grain. Localities with 200 residents or fewer have no score on this component and enter the index on the other five. **Publication rule:** localities with 200 residents or fewer are excluded from every published Sentinel ranking, leaderboard, top-or-bottom list and map, in all states and territories, under the APN Codex uniform small-locality publication rule. They are scored; the rule governs publication, not measurement. This page reports national aggregate statistics, not individual locality rankings. 6Other Components The other four pillars of the APN Social Capital Index™ (24100). [Node 24110 →APN Bedrock™ (Socio-Economic Position)Reads socio-economic position from household income, home ownership, unemployment, mortgage stress and relative socio-economic advantage.](https://australianproperty.network/apn-codex/series-20000/series-24000/series-24100/series-24110/) [Node 24130 →APN Meridian™ (Education Value Index)Education value index assessing accessibility, quality, and diversity of the educational ecosystem.](https://australianproperty.network/apn-codex/series-20000/series-24000/series-24100/series-24130/) [Node 24140 →APN Agora™ (Amenity & Access Index)Amenity and access index ranking cultural amenities, public spaces, retail services, and digital and physical connectivity.](https://australianproperty.network/apn-codex/series-20000/series-24000/series-24100/series-24140/) [Node 24150 →APN Substrate™ (Climate Resilience Rating)Reads a location's structural exposure to flood, bushfire and geological hazard, its recorded catastrophe history, and the protective presence of green infrastructure.](https://australianproperty.network/apn-codex/series-20000/series-24000/series-24100/series-24150/) [Parent index →24100 — APN Social Capital Index™](https://australianproperty.network/apn-codex/series-20000/series-24000/series-24100/) 7Certification APN Codex Node 24120 — Certified, v0.5 - Mean of the valid component scores, at least four of six - Methodology v0.5, 12 October 2026 - Statistics describe localities with more than 200 residents