Chermside crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland

Chermside is a suburb in the Brisbane council area of Queensland (about 1,375,301 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 57 out of 100 (moderate), 138th of 362 councils nationally.

Modelled estimate, not police figures: Chermside (11,426 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 2,600 of the offences recorded each year in the Brisbane council area (likely 1,290 to 4,280), roughly 23,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 310 violent offences (likely 190 to 430). 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 break-ins (76th percentile), robbery (89th percentile), theft (91st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 52.

In 2025-26: violent 981 per 100,000 (+78% vs five years earlier); property 5,360 per 100,000 (+19% vs five years earlier); break-ins 708 per 100,000 (-2% vs five years earlier); theft 3,284 per 100,000 (+34% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 68th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Brisbane council area is 5% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.5% of occupied homes (13,618 public and 2,502 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 4,491 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 35 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 33.1% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in England, New Zealand, China. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.7% (confidence 86 of 100); social housing about 3.2% of homes; about 34.5 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 33.6% 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 Chermside are those of the Brisbane council area.

OffencesPer 100,000Count5-yr change
Violent98113,491+78%
Property5,36073,714+19%
Break-ins7089,744-2%
Theft3,28445,160+34%

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

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

Crime in postcode 4032: every suburb and council it covers.

Questions

Is Chermside safe?

Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Chermside is in the Brisbane council area, which recorded 981 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 29% lower than the Queensland rate (1,380) and about 23% lower than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Chermside itself is roughly 23,000 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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