Obi Obi crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Obi Obi is a suburb in the Sunshine Coast council area of Queensland (about 381,957 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 35 out of 100 (low), 271st of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Obi Obi (208 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 21 of the offences recorded each year in the Sunshine Coast council area (likely 8 to 37), roughly 10,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 2 violent offences (likely 0 to 3). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 26 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 homicide (51st percentile), theft (65th percentile), robbery (50th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 36.
In 2025-26: violent 617 per 100,000 (+33% vs five years earlier); property 2,959 per 100,000 (+20% vs five years earlier); break-ins 306 per 100,000 (-4% vs five years earlier); theft 1,753 per 100,000 (+31% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 76th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Sunshine Coast council area is 4.4% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2.1% of occupied homes (2,257 public and 426 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 1,213 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 34.2 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 21.8% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in England, New Zealand, South Africa. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.1% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 1.9% of homes; about 33.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 22.1% 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 Obi Obi are those of the Sunshine Coast council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 617 | 2,356 | +33% |
| Property | 2,959 | 11,304 | +20% |
| Break-ins | 306 | 1,167 | -4% |
| Theft | 1,753 | 6,696 | +31% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Sunshine Coast council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4574: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Obi Obi safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Obi Obi is in the Sunshine Coast council area, which recorded 617 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 55% lower than the Queensland rate (1,380) and about 52% lower than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Obi Obi 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.
Police news near Obi Obi
- Fatal traffic crash, Sunshine Coast · Sunshine Coast, 19 Sept 2026 · 22 km away
- Robbery charges, Nambour · Nambour, 11 Sept 2026 · 15 km away
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