Herberton crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Herberton is a suburb in the Mareeba council area of Queensland (about 24,205 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 79 out of 100 (high), 29th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Herberton (895 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 280 of the offences recorded each year in the Mareeba council area (likely 140 to 460), roughly 31,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 45 violent offences (likely 27 to 63). 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 (89th percentile), break-ins (90th percentile), homicide (77th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 65.
In 2025-26: violent 3,086 per 100,000 (+146% vs five years earlier); property 6,515 per 100,000 (+44% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,653 per 100,000 (+81% vs five years earlier); theft 2,652 per 100,000 (+100% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 26th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Mareeba council area is 6% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 4.4% of occupied homes (243 public and 101 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 303 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 129.9 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 19% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in England, Italy, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5.6% (confidence 79 of 100); social housing about 4% of homes; about 127.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 19.3% 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 Herberton are those of the Mareeba council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 3,086 | 747 | +146% |
| Property | 6,515 | 1,577 | +44% |
| Break-ins | 1,653 | 400 | +81% |
| Theft | 2,652 | 642 | +100% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Mareeba council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4887: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Herberton safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Herberton is in the Mareeba council area, which recorded 3,090 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, 2.2 times the Queensland rate (1,380) and 2.4 times the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Herberton itself is roughly 31,000 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
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