Aurukun crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland council area

Aurukun is a council area in Queensland with about 1,165 residents. It has a Crime Score 86 out of 100 (very high), 11th of 362 councils nationally.

The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by assault (100th percentile), break-ins (97th percentile), sexual offences (89th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 96.

In 2024-25: violent 53,219 per 100,000 (+221% vs five years earlier); property 15,451 per 100,000 (-30% vs five years earlier); break-ins 2,489 per 100,000 (-58% vs five years earlier); theft 3,090 per 100,000 (+105% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 1st of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Aurukun council area is 16.5% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 86% of occupied homes (180 public and 23 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 110 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 981.3 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 1.6% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in England, Indonesia, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 15.9% (confidence 65 of 100); social housing about 78.2% of homes; about 965.5 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 1.7% born overseas. Confidence falls with distance from the last published figure, and the map's Estimates toggle shows every year back to 1994-95.

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