Ingham crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Ingham is a suburb in the Hinchinbrook council area of Queensland (about 11,194 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 52 out of 100 (moderate), 163rd of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Ingham (4,455 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 530 of the offences recorded each year in the Hinchinbrook council area (likely 260 to 870), roughly 12,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 110 violent offences (likely 68 to 160). 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 (85th percentile), break-ins (64th percentile), sexual offences (38th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 52.
In 2025-26: violent 2,117 per 100,000 (+41% vs five years earlier); property 3,127 per 100,000 (+60% vs five years earlier); break-ins 545 per 100,000 (+81% vs five years earlier); theft 1,251 per 100,000 (+62% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 34th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Hinchinbrook council area is 4.2% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.3% of occupied homes (84 public and 60 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 59 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 53.3 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 9.9% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in Italy, England, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4% (confidence 75 of 100); social housing about 3% of homes; about 52.5 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 10.1% 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 Ingham are those of the Hinchinbrook council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 2,117 | 237 | +41% |
| Property | 3,127 | 350 | +60% |
| Break-ins | 545 | 61 | +81% |
| Theft | 1,251 | 140 | +62% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Hinchinbrook council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4850: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Ingham safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Ingham is in the Hinchinbrook council area, which recorded 2,120 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 54% higher than the Queensland rate (1,380) and about 65% higher than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Ingham itself is roughly 12,000 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
Lannercost · Lucinda · Macknade · Mount Fox · Orient · Upper Stone · Valley of Lagoons · Wallaman · Wharps
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