Para crime statistics
Reporting period: 2025-07 – 2026-06
0 recorded in this period, compared with 0 in the preceding period.
LGA totals use the selected offence categories. Locality counts and population-adjusted LGA rates are different measures.
About Para
Para is a remote rural locality in the far south-west of New South Wales, situated within the Wentworth Shire local government area and encompassed by the 2648 postcode. The geographic landscape is characterized by arid to semi-arid terrain typical of the lower Darling and Murray-Darling basin regions, featuring expansive pastoral lands, native scrub, and flat topography. Due to its remote nature and vast pastoral holdings, Para has a very sparse population density, with residents typically residing on large rural properties and station homesteads rather than in structured urban settlements.
Local life in Para revolves around primary production industries, predominantly extensive sheep and cattle grazing, alongside broadacre dryland agriculture where conditions permit. Because of its remote setting, the locality lacks commercial retail hubs, schools, or civic services; residents rely on nearby regional service centres such as Wentworth and Broken Hill, or cross-border hubs in Victoria, for healthcare, education, and commercial shopping. Regional transport relies on unsealed and secondary regional roads connecting properties to major freight and transit routes.
The history of Para is tied to the traditional custodianship of the region's Indigenous peoples, who managed the arid landscape over millennia, followed by European pastoral expansion in the 19th century. The establishment of pastoral leases shaped the spatial layout of the area, leading to the development of historic sheep stations and stock routes that facilitated settlement along the river systems and interior drylands. Heritage elements within the broader Wentworth Shire reflect early pastoral enterprise, Indigenous cultural sites, and the region's adaptation to the challenges of the Australian interior.
Recorded offence categories
No offences are recorded in this period, so there is no leading category.
Community context
The 2021 Census recorded 7 residents. This is not a current population estimate.
Sources and interpretation
These are police-recorded incident or victim counts, not every unreported incident or a prediction of personal safety. Percentage changes are not tests of statistical significance; small counts need particular care.