Winton crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland council area

Winton is a council area in Queensland with about 1,152 residents. It has a Crime Score 44 out of 100 (moderate), 219th 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 (54th percentile), sexual offences (75th percentile), break-ins (48th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 32.

In 2024-25: violent 781 per 100,000 (+10% vs five years earlier); property 2,778 per 100,000 (-15% vs five years earlier); break-ins 347 per 100,000 (-51% vs five years earlier); theft 1,215 per 100,000 (+14% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 75th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Winton council area is 1.4% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 6.6% of occupied homes (17 public and 12 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 11 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 97.3 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 6.2% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in England, Germany, Bangladesh. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 0.8% (confidence 67 of 100); social housing about 6% of homes; about 95.7 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 6.3% 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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Suburbs in the Winton council area

Corfield · Diamantina Lakes · Middleton · Opalton · Winton

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