Lowood crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Lowood is a suburb in the Somerset council area of Queensland (about 26,936 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 50 out of 100 (moderate), 174th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Lowood (4,082 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 300 of the offences recorded each year in the Somerset council area (likely 150 to 500), roughly 7,400 per 100,000 residents, including about 67 violent offences (likely 41 to 94). 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 (58th percentile), homicide (74th percentile), sexual offences (62nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 39.
In 2025-26: violent 1,288 per 100,000 (+50% vs five years earlier); property 3,137 per 100,000 (+23% vs five years earlier); break-ins 282 per 100,000 (-35% vs five years earlier); theft 1,719 per 100,000 (+46% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 56th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Somerset council area is 5.3% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 0.4% of occupied homes (19 public and 20 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 55 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 21.4 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 14.6% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in England, New Zealand, Philippines. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5% (confidence 79 of 100); social housing about 0.4% of homes; about 21.1 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 14.8% 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 Lowood are those of the Somerset council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 1,288 | 347 | +50% |
| Property | 3,137 | 845 | +23% |
| Break-ins | 282 | 76 | -35% |
| Theft | 1,719 | 463 | +46% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Somerset council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4311: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Lowood safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Lowood is in the Somerset council area, which recorded 1,290 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 6% lower than the Queensland rate (1,380) and close to the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Lowood itself is roughly 7,400 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.
Police news near Lowood
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