Yarrabah crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland council area

Yarrabah is a council area in Queensland with about 2,669 residents. It has a Crime Score 80 out of 100 (high), 28th 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 (97th percentile), sexual offences (96th percentile), homicide (94th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 69.

In 2024-25: violent 13,563 per 100,000 (+233% vs five years earlier); property 8,018 per 100,000 (+14% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,461 per 100,000 (-40% vs five years earlier); theft 525 per 100,000 (-62% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 9th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Yarrabah council area is 37.2% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 76.7% of occupied homes (60 public and 313 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 375 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 1,432.9 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 0.3% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%). Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 34.5% (confidence 67 of 100); social housing about 69.8% of homes; about 1,409.9 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 0.3% 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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