Starcke crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland

Starcke is a suburb in the Wujal Wujal council area of Queensland (about 301 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 64 out of 100 (high), 106th 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 assault (96th percentile), break-ins (94th percentile), sexual offences (93rd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 56.

In 2024-25: violent 9,302 per 100,000 (+167% vs five years earlier); property 7,641 per 100,000 (+99% vs five years earlier); break-ins 2,990 per 100,000 (+115% vs five years earlier); theft 332 per 100,000 (-52% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 14th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Wujal Wujal council area is 25.4% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 84.8% of occupied homes (13 public and 54 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 8 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 280.7 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 0.4% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 27.2% (confidence 65 of 100); social housing about 77.1% of homes; about 276.2 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 0.4% 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 Starcke are those of the Wujal Wujal council area.

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

Nearby suburbs

Bloomfield · Cooktown · Degarra · Hope Vale · Rossville · Wujal Wujal

australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/qld/starcke/ · Australian Crime Map