Camooweal crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Camooweal is a suburb in the Mount Isa council area of Queensland (about 18,585 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 96 out of 100 (very high), 2nd of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Camooweal (236 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 190 of the offences recorded each year in the Mount Isa council area (likely 92 to 310), roughly 79,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 39 violent offences (likely 24 to 55). 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 (96th percentile), homicide (98th percentile), sexual offences (98th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 91.
In 2025-26: violent 10,401 per 100,000 (+156% vs five years earlier); property 9,820 per 100,000 (-13% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,921 per 100,000 (-21% vs five years earlier); theft 3,551 per 100,000 (-16% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 14th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Mount Isa council area is 4.2% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 9.2% of occupied homes (549 public and 42 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 473 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 248.5 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 18.1% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in New Zealand, Philippines, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4% (confidence 79 of 100); social housing about 8.4% of homes; about 244.5 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 18.4% 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 Camooweal are those of the Mount Isa council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 10,401 | 1,933 | +156% |
| Property | 9,820 | 1,825 | -13% |
| Break-ins | 1,921 | 357 | -21% |
| Theft | 3,551 | 660 | -16% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Mount Isa council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4828: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Camooweal safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Camooweal is in the Mount Isa council area, which recorded 10,400 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, 7.5 times the Queensland rate (1,380) and 8.1 times the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Camooweal itself is roughly 79,000 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
Fielding · Fisher · Gunpowder · Happy Valley · Healy · Kalkadoon · Lanskey · Mica Creek · Miles End · Mornington
australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/qld/camooweal/ · Australian Crime Map