Mount Morgan crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Mount Morgan is a suburb in the Rockhampton council area of Queensland (about 85,794 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 85 out of 100 (very high), 11th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Mount Morgan (2,018 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 740 of the offences recorded each year in the Rockhampton council area (likely 370 to 1,220), roughly 37,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 110 violent offences (likely 69 to 160). 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 (87th percentile), break-ins (89th percentile), homicide (80th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 80.
In 2025-26: violent 2,895 per 100,000 (+103% vs five years earlier); property 8,447 per 100,000 (+49% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,424 per 100,000 (+57% vs five years earlier); theft 4,193 per 100,000 (+55% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 27th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Rockhampton council area is 5.7% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 4.5% of occupied homes (1,046 public and 313 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 449 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 53.8 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 10.8% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in New Zealand, England, Philippines. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5.3% (confidence 84 of 100); social housing about 4.1% of homes; about 52.9 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 11% 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 Mount Morgan are those of the Rockhampton council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 2,895 | 2,484 | +103% |
| Property | 8,447 | 7,247 | +49% |
| Break-ins | 1,424 | 1,222 | +57% |
| Theft | 4,193 | 3,597 | +55% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Rockhampton council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4714: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Mount Morgan safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Mount Morgan is in the Rockhampton council area, which recorded 2,900 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, 2.1 times the Queensland rate (1,380) and 2.3 times the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Mount Morgan itself is roughly 37,000 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.
Police news near Mount Morgan
- Armed robbery charges, Rockhampton · Rockhampton City, 23 Oct 2026 · 32 km away
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