Cloncurry crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Cloncurry is a suburb in the Cloncurry council area of Queensland (about 3,907 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 72 out of 100 (high), 60th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Cloncurry (3,167 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 510 of the offences recorded each year in the Cloncurry council area (likely 250 to 840), roughly 16,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 130 violent offences (likely 78 to 180). 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 (91st percentile), homicide (89th percentile), sexual offences (79th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 57.
In 2025-26: violent 4,223 per 100,000 (+141% vs five years earlier); property 4,351 per 100,000 (+81% vs five years earlier); break-ins 742 per 100,000 (+45% vs five years earlier); theft 1,229 per 100,000 (+63% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 21st of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Cloncurry council area is 3.9% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 12.6% of occupied homes (87 public and 46 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 40 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 105.7 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 10.2% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in New Zealand, England, Philippines. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.7% (confidence 70 of 100); social housing about 11.4% of homes; about 104 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 10.4% 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 Cloncurry are those of the Cloncurry council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 4,223 | 165 | +141% |
| Property | 4,351 | 170 | +81% |
| Break-ins | 742 | 29 | +45% |
| Theft | 1,229 | 48 | +63% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Cloncurry council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4824: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Cloncurry safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Cloncurry is in the Cloncurry council area, which recorded 4,220 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, 3.1 times the Queensland rate (1,380) and 3.3 times the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Cloncurry itself is roughly 16,000 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
Four Ways · Gidya · Kuridala · Three Rivers
australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/qld/cloncurry/ · Australian Crime Map