Mornington crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland council area

Mornington is a council area in Queensland with about 1,099 residents. It has a Crime Score 79 out of 100 (high), 30th 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 (100th percentile), break-ins (100th percentile), sexual offences (98th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 90.

In 2024-25: violent 49,864 per 100,000 (+182% vs five years earlier); property 18,198 per 100,000 (-51% vs five years earlier); break-ins 4,004 per 100,000 (-71% vs five years earlier); theft 2,821 per 100,000 (-55% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 2nd of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Mornington council area is 6.6% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 80.3% of occupied homes (171 public and 17 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 92 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 863 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 3% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in New Zealand, England, Fiji. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 6.9% (confidence 65 of 100); social housing about 73% of homes; about 849.2 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 3.1% 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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