Bohle Plains crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland

Bohle Plains is a suburb in the Townsville council area of Queensland (about 206,260 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 84 out of 100 (very high), 18th of 362 councils nationally.

Modelled estimate, not police figures: Bohle Plains (3,989 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 420 of the offences recorded each year in the Townsville council area (likely 210 to 690), roughly 10,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 60 violent offences (likely 36 to 83). 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 (89th percentile), break-ins (92nd percentile), sexual offences (80th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 77.

In 2025-26: violent 2,883 per 100,000 (+103% vs five years earlier); property 7,720 per 100,000 (+36% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,613 per 100,000 (-7% vs five years earlier); theft 3,681 per 100,000 (+77% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 28th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Townsville council area is 5.1% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 4.3% of occupied homes (2,562 public and 409 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 884 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 44.7 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 15.1% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in England, New Zealand, Philippines. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.8% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 3.9% of homes; about 44 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 15.4% 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 Bohle Plains are those of the Townsville council area.

OffencesPer 100,000Count5-yr change
Violent2,8835,946+103%
Property7,72015,924+36%
Break-ins1,6133,328-7%
Theft3,6817,593+77%

How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.

Townsville council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Crime in postcode 4817: every suburb and council it covers.

Questions

Is Bohle Plains safe?

Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Bohle Plains is in the Townsville council area, which recorded 2,880 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, 2.1 times the Queensland rate (1,380) and 2.3 times the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Bohle Plains itself is roughly 10,000 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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