Towers Hill crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland

Towers Hill is a suburb in the Charters Towers council area of Queensland (about 12,088 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 71 out of 100 (high), 58th 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 (87th percentile), break-ins (74th percentile), robbery (81st percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 52.

In 2024-25: violent 2,465 per 100,000 (+216% vs five years earlier); property 4,426 per 100,000 (+35% vs five years earlier); break-ins 852 per 100,000 (+20% vs five years earlier); theft 1,655 per 100,000 (+10% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 34th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Charters Towers council area is 5.4% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 4.2% of occupied homes (129 public and 43 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 36 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 30.1 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 7.2% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in New Zealand, England, Philippines. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5% (confidence 75 of 100); social housing about 3.8% of homes; about 29.6 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 7.3% 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 Towers Hill are those of the Charters Towers council area.

Charters Towers council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Nearby suburbs

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