Forbes Creek crime rate and Crime Score · New South Wales

Forbes Creek is a suburb in the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area of New South Wales (about 67,633 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 34 out of 100 (low), 278th 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 (35th percentile), sexual offences (40th percentile), robbery (42nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 40.

In 2024-25: violent 884 per 100,000 (+24% vs five years earlier); property 2,181 per 100,000 (-26% vs five years earlier); break-ins 207 per 100,000 (-47% vs five years earlier); theft 903 per 100,000 (-31% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 95th of 129 New South Wales councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area is 3.1% (New South Wales 4.9%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.3% of occupied homes (583 public and 168 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; New South Wales 4.2%). An estimated 185 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 28.8 per 10,000 residents (New South Wales 43.4), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 19.3% of residents were born overseas (New South Wales 31%), most often in England, India, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3% (confidence 83 of 100); social housing about 2.9% of homes; about 28.4 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 19.6% born overseas. Confidence falls with distance from the last published figure, and the map's Estimates toggle shows every year back to 1994-95.

New South Wales publishes crime statistics by council area, not by suburb, so the figures shown for Forbes Creek are those of the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area.

Queanbeyan-Palerang council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Nearby suburbs

Anembo · Bungendore · Bywong · Captains Flat · Hoskinstown · Jerrabomberra · Primrose Valley · Rossi

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