Burke crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland council area

Burke is a council area in Queensland with about 449 residents. It has a Crime Score 53 out of 100 (moderate), 158th 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 (91st percentile), break-ins (58th percentile), sexual offences (50th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 74.

In 2024-25: violent 5,122 per 100,000 (+113% vs five years earlier); property 2,450 per 100,000 (-22% vs five years earlier); break-ins 0 per 100,000 (-100% vs five years earlier); theft 1,114 per 100,000 (-42% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 17th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Burke council area is 3% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 16.5% of occupied homes (17 public and 3 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 38 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 879.6 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 7.9% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in Bangladesh, France, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 1.8% (confidence 65 of 100); social housing about 15% of homes; about 865.5 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 8% 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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