Silkwood crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Silkwood is a suburb in the Cassowary Coast council area of Queensland (about 30,666 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 60 out of 100 (high), 123rd of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Silkwood (407 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 33 of the offences recorded each year in the Cassowary Coast council area (likely 16 to 54), roughly 8,100 per 100,000 residents, including about 5 violent offences (likely 2 to 8). 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 (77th percentile), break-ins (73rd percentile), homicide (59th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 58.
In 2025-26: violent 1,761 per 100,000 (+52% vs five years earlier); property 3,897 per 100,000 (+32% vs five years earlier); break-ins 571 per 100,000 (+11% vs five years earlier); theft 1,852 per 100,000 (+51% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 40th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Cassowary Coast council area is 5.4% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.3% of occupied homes (248 public and 112 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 155 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 52.4 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 16.2% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in India, England, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5% (confidence 80 of 100); social housing about 3% of homes; about 51.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 16.5% 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 Silkwood are those of the Cassowary Coast council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 1,761 | 540 | +52% |
| Property | 3,897 | 1,195 | +32% |
| Break-ins | 571 | 175 | +11% |
| Theft | 1,852 | 568 | +51% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Cassowary Coast council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4857: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Silkwood safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Silkwood is in the Cassowary Coast council area, which recorded 1,760 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 28% higher than the Queensland rate (1,380) and about 38% higher than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Silkwood itself is roughly 8,100 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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