Palm Island crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland council area

Palm Island is a council area in Queensland with about 2,335 residents. It has a Crime Score 90 out of 100 (very high), 7th 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), break-ins (97th percentile), sexual offences (97th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 97.

In 2024-25: violent 20,771 per 100,000 (+97% vs five years earlier); property 8,908 per 100,000 (-62% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,713 per 100,000 (-76% vs five years earlier); theft 1,199 per 100,000 (-75% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 6th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Palm Island council area is 11% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 88.2% of occupied homes (420 public and 13 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 140 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 638.7 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 1.3% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in New Zealand, United States, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 9.1% (confidence 66 of 100); social housing about 80.2% of homes; about 628.4 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 1.3% born overseas. Confidence falls with distance from the last published figure, and the map's Estimates toggle shows every year back to 1994-95.

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