Cook crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland council area

Cook is a council area in Queensland with about 4,876 residents. It has a Crime Score 67 out of 100 (high), 85th 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 (92nd percentile), break-ins (88th percentile), sexual offences (70th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 73.

In 2024-25: violent 4,553 per 100,000 (+134% vs five years earlier); property 6,173 per 100,000 (+26% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,292 per 100,000 (+38% vs five years earlier); theft 2,297 per 100,000 (+24% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 20th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Cook council area is 5.7% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 10.8% of occupied homes (129 public and 33 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 130 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 278.1 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 17.3% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in England, New Zealand, South Africa. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5.2% (confidence 70 of 100); social housing about 9.8% of homes; about 273.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 17.6% 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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