Lockhart River crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland council area

Lockhart River is a council area in Queensland with about 702 residents. It has a Crime Score 63 out of 100 (high), 110th 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 (98th percentile), sexual offences (95th percentile), break-ins (92nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 74.

In 2024-25: violent 16,239 per 100,000 (+320% vs five years earlier); property 9,259 per 100,000 (+140% vs five years earlier); break-ins 3,419 per 100,000 (+2,201% vs five years earlier); theft 855 per 100,000 (-36% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 8th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Lockhart River council area is 33.3% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 63.2% of occupied homes (89 public and 9 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 18 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 274.8 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 3.8% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in New Zealand, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 31.1% (confidence 66 of 100); social housing about 57.5% of homes; about 270.4 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 3.9% 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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