Lakeland crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Lakeland is a suburb in the Etheridge council area of Queensland (about 727 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 44 out of 100 (moderate), 222nd of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Lakeland (333 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 17 of the offences recorded each year in the Etheridge council area (likely 6 to 31), roughly 5,200 per 100,000 residents, including about 2 violent offences (likely 1 to 4). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 26 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 sexual offences (69th percentile), assault (42nd percentile), theft (80th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 19.
In 2025-26: violent 825 per 100,000 (+498% vs five years earlier); property 4,127 per 100,000 (+130% vs five years earlier); break-ins 550 per 100,000 (+98% vs five years earlier); theft 2,201 per 100,000 (+77% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 73rd of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Etheridge council area is 3.3% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.2% of occupied homes (3 public and 0 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 7 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 97.5 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 8% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in New Zealand, England, United States. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3% (confidence 66 of 100); social housing about 1% of homes; about 95.9 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 8.1% 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 Lakeland are those of the Etheridge council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 825 | 6 | +498% |
| Property | 4,127 | 30 | +130% |
| Break-ins | 550 | 4 | +98% |
| Theft | 2,201 | 16 | +77% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Etheridge council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4871: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Lakeland safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Lakeland is in the Etheridge council area, which recorded 825 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 40% lower than the Queensland rate (1,380) and about 36% lower than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Lakeland itself is roughly 5,200 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
Conjuboy · Coralie · Croydon · Crystal Brook · Einasleigh · Esmeralda · Forsayth · Georgetown · Lyndhurst
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