Mowbray crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Mowbray is a suburb in the Douglas council area of Queensland (about 13,169 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 53 out of 100 (moderate), 155th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Mowbray (362 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 37 of the offences recorded each year in the Douglas council area (likely 18 to 61), roughly 10,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 5 violent offences (likely 2 to 9). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 31 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 (79th percentile), break-ins (77th percentile), theft (62nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 61.
In 2025-26: violent 1,898 per 100,000 (+36% vs five years earlier); property 3,774 per 100,000 (-5% vs five years earlier); break-ins 706 per 100,000 (+13% vs five years earlier); theft 1,633 per 100,000 (+32% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 37th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Douglas council area is 4.1% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.7% of occupied homes (126 public and 44 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 102 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 80.7 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 24.4% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in England, New Zealand, Germany. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.9% (confidence 76 of 100); social housing about 3.4% of homes; about 79.4 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 24.8% 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 Mowbray are those of the Douglas council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 1,898 | 250 | +36% |
| Property | 3,774 | 497 | -5% |
| Break-ins | 706 | 93 | +13% |
| Theft | 1,633 | 215 | +32% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Douglas council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4877: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Mowbray safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Mowbray is in the Douglas council area, which recorded 1,900 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 38% higher than the Queensland rate (1,380) and about 48% higher than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Mowbray itself is roughly 10,000 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
Craiglie · Dagmar · Daintree · Diwan · Killaloe · Kimberley · Low Isles · Mossman · Mossman Gorge · Oak Beach · Port Douglas · Spurgeon · Stewart Creek Valley · Upper Daintree · Wangetti
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