Kowanyama crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland council area

Kowanyama is a council area in Queensland with about 1,155 residents. It has a Crime Score 83 out of 100 (very high), 18th 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 (99th percentile), break-ins (96th percentile), sexual offences (89th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 88.

In 2024-25: violent 32,035 per 100,000 (+683% vs five years earlier); property 16,104 per 100,000 (+261% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,818 per 100,000 (+63% vs five years earlier); theft 2,338 per 100,000 (+179% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 3rd of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Kowanyama council area is 41% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 75.7% of occupied homes (117 public and 70 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 87 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 767.9 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 1.6% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in New Zealand, South Africa. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 37.6% (confidence 66 of 100); social housing about 68.8% of homes; about 755.5 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 1.6% 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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