Hampden crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Hampden is a suburb in the Mackay council area of Queensland (about 129,253 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 68 out of 100 (high), 75th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Hampden (598 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 45 of the offences recorded each year in the Mackay council area (likely 22 to 75), roughly 7,600 per 100,000 residents, including about 5 violent offences (likely 2 to 8). 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 (69th percentile), break-ins (74th percentile), homicide (72nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 59.
In 2025-26: violent 1,666 per 100,000 (+102% vs five years earlier); property 4,918 per 100,000 (+2% vs five years earlier); break-ins 710 per 100,000 (-19% vs five years earlier); theft 2,615 per 100,000 (+10% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 42nd of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Mackay council area is 4% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.4% of occupied homes (1,221 public and 258 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 460 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 36.9 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 13.1% 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 84 of 100); social housing about 3.1% of homes; about 36.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 13.3% 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 Hampden are those of the Mackay council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 1,666 | 2,154 | +102% |
| Property | 4,918 | 6,357 | +2% |
| Break-ins | 710 | 918 | -19% |
| Theft | 2,615 | 3,380 | +10% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Mackay council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4741: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Hampden safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Hampden is in the Mackay council area, which recorded 1,670 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 21% higher than the Queensland rate (1,380) and about 30% higher than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Hampden itself is roughly 7,600 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.
Police news near Hampden
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