Barcaldine crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Barcaldine is a suburb in the Barcaldine council area of Queensland (about 2,937 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 43 out of 100 (moderate), 225th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Barcaldine (1,540 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 130 of the offences recorded each year in the Barcaldine council area (likely 63 to 210), roughly 8,300 per 100,000 residents, including about 22 violent offences (likely 12 to 37). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 44 of 100. The estimate shares the council's published total (2025-26, three-year average) between its suburbs using a model trained on South Australia's suburb-level police data and ABS measures of each suburb's population and socio-economic profile.
The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by assault (63rd percentile), theft (81st percentile), sexual offences (45th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 21.
In 2025-26: violent 1,021 per 100,000 (+83% vs five years earlier); property 7,354 per 100,000 (+219% vs five years earlier); break-ins 409 per 100,000 (+30% vs five years earlier); theft 5,686 per 100,000 (+551% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 66th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Barcaldine council area is 2.3% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 4.8% of occupied homes (40 public and 11 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 10 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 35 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 5.8% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in New Zealand, England, South Africa. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 2.2% (confidence 69 of 100); social housing about 4.4% of homes; about 34.4 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 5.9% born overseas. Confidence falls with distance from the last published figure, and the map's Estimates toggle shows every year back to 1994-95.
Queensland publishes crime statistics by council area, not by suburb, so the figures shown for Barcaldine are those of the Barcaldine council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 1,021 | 30 | +83% |
| Property | 7,354 | 216 | +219% |
| Break-ins | 409 | 12 | +30% |
| Theft | 5,686 | 167 | +551% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Barcaldine council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4725: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Barcaldine safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Barcaldine is in the Barcaldine council area, which recorded 1,020 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 26% lower than the Queensland rate (1,380) and about 20% lower than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Barcaldine itself is roughly 8,300 offences of all kinds per 100,000 residents a year (an estimate, not police figures). These are offences recorded by police per resident: they describe the area as a whole, not the risk on any particular street, and places with a busy centre record more because offences are counted where they happen.
Nearby suburbs
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