Pormpuraaw crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland council area

Pormpuraaw is a council area in Queensland with about 650 residents. It has a Crime Score 79 out of 100 (high), 31st 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), sexual offences (94th percentile), break-ins (90th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 85.

In 2024-25: violent 18,615 per 100,000 (+205% vs five years earlier); property 7,231 per 100,000 (-18% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,846 per 100,000 (-11% vs five years earlier); theft 1,077 per 100,000 (+21% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 7th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Pormpuraaw council area is 43.2% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 69.9% of occupied homes (76 public and 31 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 50 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 787.4 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 3.3% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in New Zealand, South Africa, Papua New Guinea. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 40.6% (confidence 66 of 100); social housing about 63.6% of homes; about 774.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 3.4% 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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