Boulia crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Boulia is a suburb in the Boulia council area of Queensland (about 489 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 49 out of 100 (moderate), 176th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Boulia (314 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 45 of the offences recorded each year in the Boulia council area (likely 22 to 74), roughly 14,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 16 violent offences (likely 8 to 26). 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 (92nd percentile), break-ins (86th percentile), sexual offences (58th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 50.
In 2025-26: violent 3,272 per 100,000 (+18% vs five years earlier); property 2,658 per 100,000 (-65% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,431 per 100,000 (+236% vs five years earlier); theft 409 per 100,000 (-68% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 24th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Boulia council area is 4.3% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 20.8% of occupied homes (24 public and 6 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 4 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 84.2 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 6.8% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in England, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.1% (confidence 65 of 100); social housing about 18.9% of homes; about 82.9 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 6.9% 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 Boulia are those of the Boulia council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 3,272 | 16 | +18% |
| Property | 2,658 | 13 | -65% |
| Break-ins | 1,431 | 7 | +236% |
| Theft | 409 | 2 | -68% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Boulia council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4829: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Boulia safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Boulia is in the Boulia council area, which recorded 3,270 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, 2.4 times the Queensland rate (1,380) and 2.6 times the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Boulia itself is roughly 14,000 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.
Nearby suburbs
Amaroo · Bedourie · Min Min · Sturt · Toko · Warenda · Wills
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