Burketown crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland

Burketown is a suburb in the Doomadgee council area of Queensland (about 1,484 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 92 out of 100 (very high), 5th 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 (99th percentile), sexual offences (99th percentile), homicide (98th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 84.

In 2024-25: violent 23,248 per 100,000 (+115% vs five years earlier); property 11,860 per 100,000 (-49% vs five years earlier); break-ins 2,291 per 100,000 (-72% vs five years earlier); theft 3,235 per 100,000 (-44% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 4th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Doomadgee council area is 17.5% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 82.1% of occupied homes (155 public and 79 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 124 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 861.1 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 2.8% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in India, South Africa, Zimbabwe. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 16.4% (confidence 66 of 100); social housing about 74.6% of homes; about 847.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 2.8% 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 Burketown are those of the Doomadgee council area.

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

Nearby suburbs

Doomadgee · Gregory · Nicholson

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