Laidley crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Laidley is a suburb in the Lockyer Valley council area of Queensland (about 46,058 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 56 out of 100 (moderate), 142nd of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Laidley (3,809 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 480 of the offences recorded each year in the Lockyer Valley council area (likely 240 to 780), roughly 12,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 81 violent offences (likely 50 to 110). 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 (61st percentile), homicide (69th percentile), sexual offences (68th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 48.
In 2025-26: violent 1,598 per 100,000 (+137% vs five years earlier); property 3,806 per 100,000 (+52% vs five years earlier); break-ins 428 per 100,000 (+8% vs five years earlier); theft 2,321 per 100,000 (+81% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 46th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Lockyer Valley council area is 5.3% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.1% of occupied homes (119 public and 34 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 152 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 35.7 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 15.1% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in England, New Zealand, India. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5% (confidence 82 of 100); social housing about 1% of homes; about 35.1 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 15.4% 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 Laidley are those of the Lockyer Valley council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 1,598 | 736 | +137% |
| Property | 3,806 | 1,753 | +52% |
| Break-ins | 428 | 197 | +8% |
| Theft | 2,321 | 1,069 | +81% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Lockyer Valley council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4341: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Laidley safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Laidley is in the Lockyer Valley council area, which recorded 1,600 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 16% higher than the Queensland rate (1,380) and about 25% higher than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Laidley 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
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