Ipswich crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland council area

Ipswich is a council area in Queensland with about 268,272 residents. It has a Crime Score 64 out of 100 (high), 99th 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 (73rd percentile), robbery (85th percentile), homicide (60th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 60.

In 2025-26: violent 1,687 per 100,000 (+90% vs five years earlier); property 4,898 per 100,000 (+13% vs five years earlier); break-ins 478 per 100,000 (-19% vs five years earlier); theft 2,803 per 100,000 (+24% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 41st of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Ipswich council area is 6.7% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.3% of occupied homes (2,117 public and 427 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 988 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 40.8 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 23% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in New Zealand, England, India. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 6.3% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 3% of homes; about 40.2 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 23.3% born overseas. Confidence falls with distance from the last published figure, and the map's Estimates toggle shows every year back to 1994-95.

OffencesPer 100,000Count5-yr change
Violent1,6874,527+90%
Property4,89813,140+13%
Break-ins4781,281-19%
Theft2,8037,520+24%

Street by street: the last 30 days

Queensland Police recorded 1,393 offences in 560 street blocks of Ipswich from 2 October to 31 October 2026. The most common were theft (492), drugs (243) and assault (152). Each offence is placed in a street block of roughly 30 to 60 homes, not at an address; sexual and traffic offences are not included.

See every street block on the map (source: Queensland Police Service, CC BY).

Questions

Is Ipswich safe?

Ipswich recorded 1,690 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 22% higher than the Queensland rate (1,380) and about 32% higher than the national rate (1,280). Its Crime Score is 64.4 out of 100 (high), 99th of 362 councils. These are offences recorded by police per resident: they describe the area as a whole, not the risk on any particular street, and places with a busy centre record more because offences are counted where they happen.

How many break-ins are there in Ipswich?

1,281 break-ins were recorded in 2025-26: 478 per 100,000 residents, about 30% lower than the Queensland rate (686).

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Suburbs in the Ipswich council area

Augustine Heights · Basin Pocket · Bellbird Park · Blackstone · Booval · Brookwater · Bundamba · Calvert · Camira · Carole Park · Coalfalls · Collingwood Park · Dinmore · Eastern Heights · Ebbw Vale · Ebenezer · Gailes · Goodna · Ipswich · Limestone Ridges · Lower Mount Walker · Marburg · Merryvale · Moores Pocket · Mount Forbes · Mount Mort · Mount Walker · New Chum · Newtown · North Booval · North Tivoli · Redbank · Redbank Plains · Riverview · Rosevale · Rosewood · Silkstone · Springfield · Springfield Central · Springfield Lakes · The Bluff · Tivoli · Woodend

Postcodes in the Ipswich council area

4300 · 4301 · 4303 · 4304 · 4305 · 4340 · 4346

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