Bingil Bay crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Bingil Bay is a suburb in the Cassowary Coast council area of Queensland (about 30,666 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 60 out of 100 (high), 123rd of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Bingil Bay (438 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 36 of the offences recorded each year in the Cassowary Coast council area (likely 18 to 60), roughly 8,300 per 100,000 residents, including about 5 violent offences (likely 2 to 9). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 31 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 (77th percentile), break-ins (73rd percentile), homicide (59th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 58.
In 2025-26: violent 1,761 per 100,000 (+52% vs five years earlier); property 3,897 per 100,000 (+32% vs five years earlier); break-ins 571 per 100,000 (+11% vs five years earlier); theft 1,852 per 100,000 (+51% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 40th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Cassowary Coast council area is 5.4% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.3% of occupied homes (248 public and 112 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 155 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 52.4 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 16.2% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in India, England, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5% (confidence 80 of 100); social housing about 3% of homes; about 51.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 16.5% 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 Bingil Bay are those of the Cassowary Coast council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 1,761 | 540 | +52% |
| Property | 3,897 | 1,195 | +32% |
| Break-ins | 571 | 175 | +11% |
| Theft | 1,852 | 568 | +51% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Cassowary Coast council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4852: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Bingil Bay safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Bingil Bay is in the Cassowary Coast council area, which recorded 1,760 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 28% higher than the Queensland rate (1,380) and about 38% higher than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Bingil Bay 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.
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