Diamantina crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland council area

Diamantina is a council area in Queensland with about 265 residents. It has a Crime Score 26 out of 100 (low), 306th 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 (62nd percentile), drugs (77th percentile), public order (93rd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 21.

In 2024-25: violent 1,132 per 100,000 (+209% vs five years earlier); property 755 per 100,000 (-66% vs five years earlier); break-ins 0 per 100,000 (-100% vs five years earlier); theft 755 per 100,000 (-31% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 64th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Diamantina council area is 4.8% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 15.9% of occupied homes (13 public and 0 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 3 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 112.4 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 15.2% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in England, India, Pakistan. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4% (confidence 65 of 100); social housing about 14.4% of homes; about 110.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 15.4% 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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Suburbs in the Diamantina council area

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