Linden crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland

Linden is a suburb in the Paroo council area of Queensland (about 1,724 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 78 out of 100 (high), 34th of 362 councils nationally.

The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by assault (89th percentile), sexual offences (100th percentile), break-ins (94th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 77.

In 2024-25: violent 4,060 per 100,000 (+10% vs five years earlier); property 9,223 per 100,000 (-9% vs five years earlier); break-ins 2,320 per 100,000 (-13% vs five years earlier); theft 2,784 per 100,000 (-22% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 21st of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Paroo council area is 7% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 12.8% of occupied homes (72 public and 17 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 19 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 111.1 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 5.5% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in New Zealand, England, Germany. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 6.5% (confidence 67 of 100); social housing about 11.7% of homes; about 109.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 5.6% 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 Linden are those of the Paroo council area.

Paroo council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Nearby suburbs

Barringun · Cunnamulla · Cuttaburra · Eulo · Humeburn · Jobs Gate · Noorama · Paroo · Tuen · Widgeegoara · Wyandra · Yowah

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