Scottville crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Scottville is a suburb in the Whitsunday council area of Queensland (about 41,374 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 64 out of 100 (high), 104th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Scottville (279 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 30 of the offences recorded each year in the Whitsunday council area (likely 15 to 50), roughly 11,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 4 violent offences (likely 1 to 6). 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 (74th percentile), sexual offences (61st percentile), break-ins (57th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 47.
In 2025-26: violent 1,798 per 100,000 (+95% vs five years earlier); property 4,551 per 100,000 (+41% vs five years earlier); break-ins 604 per 100,000 (+13% vs five years earlier); theft 2,219 per 100,000 (+47% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 39th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Whitsunday council area is 4.4% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 4.1% of occupied homes (341 public and 176 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 201 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 52.3 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 18.5% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in England, New Zealand, Philippines. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.1% (confidence 81 of 100); social housing about 3.7% of homes; about 51.5 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 18.8% 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 Scottville are those of the Whitsunday council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 1,798 | 744 | +95% |
| Property | 4,551 | 1,883 | +41% |
| Break-ins | 604 | 250 | +13% |
| Theft | 2,219 | 918 | +47% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Whitsunday council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4804: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Scottville safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Scottville is in the Whitsunday council area, which recorded 1,800 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 31% higher than the Queensland rate (1,380) and about 40% higher than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Scottville itself is roughly 11,000 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.
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