Cherbourg crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland council area

Cherbourg is a council area in Queensland with about 1,289 residents. It has a Crime Score 86 out of 100 (very high), 13th 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 (97th percentile), break-ins (98th percentile), sexual offences (98th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 83.

In 2024-25: violent 9,465 per 100,000 (-14% vs five years earlier); property 17,300 per 100,000 (-7% vs five years earlier); break-ins 4,500 per 100,000 (-14% vs five years earlier); theft 2,250 per 100,000 (-33% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 13th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Cherbourg council area is 20.1% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 101.3% of occupied homes (275 public and 36 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 8 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 65.4 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 0% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%). Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 18.4% (confidence 65 of 100); social housing about 92.1% of homes; about 64.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 0% 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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