Watsonville crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Watsonville is a suburb in the Mareeba council area of Queensland (about 24,205 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 79 out of 100 (high), 29th 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 (89th percentile), break-ins (90th percentile), homicide (77th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 65.
In 2025-26: violent 3,086 per 100,000 (+146% vs five years earlier); property 6,515 per 100,000 (+44% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,653 per 100,000 (+81% vs five years earlier); theft 2,652 per 100,000 (+100% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 26th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Mareeba council area is 6% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 4.4% of occupied homes (243 public and 101 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 303 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 129.9 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 19% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in England, Italy, New Zealand. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 5.6% (confidence 79 of 100); social housing about 4% of homes; about 127.8 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 19.3% 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 Watsonville are those of the Mareeba council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 3,086 | 747 | +146% |
| Property | 6,515 | 1,577 | +44% |
| Break-ins | 1,653 | 400 | +81% |
| Theft | 2,652 | 642 | +100% |
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Questions
Is Watsonville safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Watsonville is in the Mareeba council area, which recorded 3,090 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, 2.2 times the Queensland rate (1,380) and 2.4 times the national rate (1,280). 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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