Quilpie crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland

Quilpie is a suburb in the Quilpie council area of Queensland (about 720 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 29 out of 100 (low), 297th of 362 councils nationally.

The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by sexual offences (98th percentile), assault (32nd percentile), property damage (52nd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 28.

In 2024-25: violent 3,056 per 100,000 (+175% vs five years earlier); property 1,389 per 100,000 (-28% vs five years earlier); break-ins 0 per 100,000 (-100% vs five years earlier); theft 694 per 100,000 (-54% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 27th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Quilpie council area is 1% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 5.4% of occupied homes (9 public and 6 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 8 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 113.8 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 6.5% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in England, New Zealand, Netherlands. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 0.9% (confidence 66 of 100); social housing about 4.9% of homes; about 112 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 6.6% 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 Quilpie are those of the Quilpie council area.

Quilpie council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

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