Croydon crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland council area

Croydon is a council area in Queensland with about 273 residents. It has a Crime Score 51 out of 100 (moderate), 174th 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 (84th percentile), sexual offences (94th percentile), property damage (88th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 18.

In 2024-25: violent 2,564 per 100,000 (+245% vs five years earlier); property 5,128 per 100,000 (+176% vs five years earlier); break-ins 0 per 100,000 (-100% vs five years earlier); theft 1,832 per 100,000 (+23% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 31st of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Croydon council area is 5.8% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 5% of occupied homes (4 public and 0 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 3 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 111.9 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 5.9% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in Philippines, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 7.4% (confidence 65 of 100); social housing about 4.5% of homes; about 110.1 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 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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