Rosslyn crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Rosslyn is a suburb in the Livingstone council area of Queensland (about 43,668 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 44 out of 100 (moderate), 219th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Rosslyn (613 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 41 of the offences recorded each year in the Livingstone council area (likely 20 to 68), roughly 6,700 per 100,000 residents, including about 5 violent offences (likely 2 to 8). 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 (48th percentile), homicide (70th percentile), break-ins (44th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 37.
In 2025-26: violent 1,237 per 100,000 (+90% vs five years earlier); property 2,917 per 100,000 (+40% vs five years earlier); break-ins 371 per 100,000 (-6% vs five years earlier); theft 1,482 per 100,000 (+57% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 60th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Livingstone council area is 4.3% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 1.8% of occupied homes (166 public and 86 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 75 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 18.4 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 11% 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 81 of 100); social housing about 1.7% of homes; about 18.1 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 11.2% 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 Rosslyn are those of the Livingstone council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 1,237 | 540 | +90% |
| Property | 2,917 | 1,274 | +40% |
| Break-ins | 371 | 162 | -6% |
| Theft | 1,482 | 647 | +57% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Livingstone council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4703: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Rosslyn safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Rosslyn is in the Livingstone council area, which recorded 1,240 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 10% lower than the Queensland rate (1,380) and close to the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Rosslyn itself is roughly 6,700 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.
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