Mapoon crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland council area

Mapoon is a council area in Queensland with about 494 residents. It has a Crime Score 58 out of 100 (moderate), 133rd 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 (92nd percentile), sexual offences (95th percentile), robbery (89th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 45.

In 2024-25: violent 7,895 per 100,000 (+267% vs five years earlier); property 3,441 per 100,000 (+105% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,012 per 100,000 (+15% vs five years earlier); theft 405 per 100,000 (-58% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 15th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Mapoon council area is 25.2% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 77.7% of occupied homes (66 public and 7 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 12 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 263.2 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 1.9% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 25% (confidence 65 of 100); social housing about 70.6% of homes; about 258.9 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 1.9% 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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