Waterford West crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland

Waterford West is a suburb in the Logan council area of Queensland (about 403,515 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 70 out of 100 (high), 66th of 362 councils nationally.

Modelled estimate, not police figures: Waterford West (6,942 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 1,260 of the offences recorded each year in the Logan council area (likely 630 to 2,080), roughly 18,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 180 violent offences (likely 110 to 250). 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 (70th percentile), robbery (92nd percentile), break-ins (77th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 65.

In 2025-26: violent 1,560 per 100,000 (+55% vs five years earlier); property 6,589 per 100,000 (+23% vs five years earlier); break-ins 801 per 100,000 (+4% vs five years earlier); theft 3,870 per 100,000 (+43% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 48th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.

Unemployment in the Logan council area is 7% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.7% of occupied homes (3,725 public and 397 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 1,704 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 47 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 29.8% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in New Zealand, England, India. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 6.6% (confidence 85 of 100); social housing about 3.3% of homes; about 46.3 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 30.3% 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 Waterford West are those of the Logan council area.

OffencesPer 100,000Count5-yr change
Violent1,5606,293+55%
Property6,58926,587+23%
Break-ins8013,231+4%
Theft3,87015,615+43%

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

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

Crime in postcode 4133: every suburb and council it covers.

Questions

Is Waterford West safe?

Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Waterford West is in the Logan council area, which recorded 1,560 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 13% higher than the Queensland rate (1,380) and about 22% higher than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Waterford West itself is roughly 18,000 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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