Saibai Island crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Saibai Island is a suburb in the Torres council area of Queensland (about 3,490 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 58 out of 100 (moderate), 133rd of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Saibai Island (340 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 88 of the offences recorded each year in the Torres council area (likely 43 to 140), roughly 26,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 18 violent offences (likely 10 to 30). 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 (88th percentile), break-ins (91st percentile), sexual offences (53rd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 68.
In 2025-26: violent 2,722 per 100,000 (+48% vs five years earlier); property 2,521 per 100,000 (-39% vs five years earlier); break-ins 458 per 100,000 (-61% vs five years earlier); theft 745 per 100,000 (-48% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 29th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Torres council area is 4.2% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 37.1% of occupied homes (316 public and 36 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 80 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 227.9 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 8.3% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, England. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.7% (confidence 70 of 100); social housing about 33.7% of homes; about 224.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 8.4% 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 Saibai Island are those of the Torres council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 2,722 | 95 | +48% |
| Property | 2,521 | 88 | -39% |
| Break-ins | 458 | 16 | -61% |
| Theft | 745 | 26 | -48% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Torres council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4875: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Saibai Island safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Saibai Island is in the Torres council area, which recorded 2,720 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 98% higher than the Queensland rate (1,380) and 2.1 times the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Saibai Island itself is roughly 26,000 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
Boigu Island · Dauan Island · Iama Island · Mabuiag Island · Moa Island · Poruma Island · Prince of Wales · Thursday Island · Warraber Islet
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