Upper Daintree crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland

Upper Daintree is a suburb in the Douglas council area of Queensland (about 13,169 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 53 out of 100 (moderate), 160th 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 (80th percentile), break-ins (77th percentile), theft (59th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 59.

In 2024-25: violent 1,891 per 100,000 (+89% vs five years earlier); property 4,359 per 100,000 (+7% vs five years earlier); break-ins 699 per 100,000 (-27% vs five years earlier); theft 1,982 per 100,000 (+22% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 40th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Douglas council area is 4.1% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.7% of occupied homes (126 public and 44 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 102 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 80.7 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 24.4% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in England, New Zealand, Germany. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 3.9% (confidence 76 of 100); social housing about 3.4% of homes; about 79.4 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 24.8% 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 Upper Daintree are those of the Douglas council area.

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

Nearby suburbs

Craiglie · Dagmar · Daintree · Diwan · Killaloe · Kimberley · Low Isles · Mossman · Mossman Gorge · Mowbray · Oak Beach · Port Douglas · Spurgeon · Stewart Creek Valley · Wangetti

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