Mission River crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Mission River is a suburb in the Weipa council area of Queensland (about 4,297 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 51 out of 100 (moderate), 171st of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Mission River (974 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 160 of the offences recorded each year in the Weipa council area (likely 81 to 270), roughly 17,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 38 violent offences (likely 23 to 53). 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 (72nd percentile), break-ins (73rd percentile), vehicle theft (86th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 41.
In 2025-26: violent 1,559 per 100,000 (+28% vs five years earlier); property 2,979 per 100,000 (+78% vs five years earlier); break-ins 512 per 100,000 (+43% vs five years earlier); theft 1,489 per 100,000 (+115% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 49th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Weipa council area is 2.1% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.1% of occupied homes (26 public and 0 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 12 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 28.5 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 11.2% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in New Zealand, England, Philippines. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 1.9% (confidence 71 of 100); social housing about 1.9% of homes; about 28.1 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 11.4% 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 Mission River are those of the Weipa council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 1,559 | 67 | +28% |
| Property | 2,979 | 128 | +78% |
| Break-ins | 512 | 22 | +43% |
| Theft | 1,489 | 64 | +115% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Weipa council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4874: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Mission River safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Mission River is in the Weipa council area, which recorded 1,560 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 13% higher than the Queensland rate (1,380) and about 22% higher than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Mission River itself is roughly 17,000 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
Evans Landing · Jardine River · Mapoon · Nanum · Rocky Point · Shelburne · Trunding · Weipa Airport · Wenlock
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