Torres Strait Island crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland council area

Torres Strait Island is a council area in Queensland with about 4,298 residents. It has a Crime Score 38 out of 100 (low), 255th 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 (88th percentile), sexual offences (48th percentile), break-ins (43rd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 44.

In 2024-25: violent 3,304 per 100,000 (+115% vs five years earlier); property 2,141 per 100,000 (+14% vs five years earlier); break-ins 512 per 100,000 (+39% vs five years earlier); theft 326 per 100,000 (+18% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 24th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Torres Strait Island council area is 11.7% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 83.5% of occupied homes (575 public and 271 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 118 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 275.6 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 3.5% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 10.9% (confidence 69 of 100); social housing about 75.9% of homes; about 271.2 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 3.6% 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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