Tugun crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland

Tugun is a suburb in the Gold Coast council area of Queensland (about 691,230 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 56 out of 100 (moderate), 143rd of 362 councils nationally.

Modelled estimate, not police figures: Tugun (7,175 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 730 of the offences recorded each year in the Gold Coast council area (likely 360 to 1,200), roughly 10,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 75 violent offences (likely 46 to 110). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 44 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 (47th percentile), robbery (77th percentile), theft (87th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 56.

In 2025-26: violent 1,057 per 100,000 (+21% vs five years earlier); property 4,737 per 100,000 (-1% vs five years earlier); break-ins 534 per 100,000 (-18% vs five years earlier); theft 2,873 per 100,000 (+9% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 64th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Gold Coast council area is 5.4% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 2% of occupied homes (3,587 public and 940 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 1,793 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 27.8 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 30.9% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in New Zealand, England, China. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5% (confidence 86 of 100); social housing about 1.8% of homes; about 27.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 31.4% 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 Tugun are those of the Gold Coast council area.

OffencesPer 100,000Count5-yr change
Violent1,0577,307+21%
Property4,73732,744-1%
Break-ins5343,694-18%
Theft2,87319,861+9%

How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.

Gold Coast council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.

Crime in postcode 4224: every suburb and council it covers.

Questions

Is Tugun safe?

Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Tugun is in the Gold Coast council area, which recorded 1,060 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 23% lower than the Queensland rate (1,380) and about 17% lower than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Tugun itself is roughly 10,000 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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