Wongabel crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Wongabel is a suburb in the Tablelands council area of Queensland (about 27,902 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 66 out of 100 (high), 91st of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Wongabel (251 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 17 of the offences recorded each year in the Tablelands council area (likely 6 to 31), roughly 6,800 per 100,000 residents, including about 2 violent offences (likely 0 to 3). Ranges are 80% intervals; confidence 26 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 (65th percentile), homicide (86th percentile), break-ins (83rd percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 40.
In 2025-26: violent 1,509 per 100,000 (+128% vs five years earlier); property 4,982 per 100,000 (+84% vs five years earlier); break-ins 1,125 per 100,000 (+81% vs five years earlier); theft 2,183 per 100,000 (+110% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 50th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Tablelands council area is 5% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 3.2% of occupied homes (202 public and 117 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 139 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 51.9 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 14.7% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%), most often in England, New Zealand, Germany. Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 4.7% (confidence 79 of 100); social housing about 2.9% of homes; about 51.1 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 15% 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 Wongabel are those of the Tablelands council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 1,509 | 421 | +128% |
| Property | 4,982 | 1,390 | +84% |
| Break-ins | 1,125 | 314 | +81% |
| Theft | 2,183 | 609 | +110% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Tablelands council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4883: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Wongabel safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Wongabel is in the Tablelands council area, which recorded 1,510 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, about 10% higher than the Queensland rate (1,380) and about 18% higher than the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Wongabel itself is roughly 6,800 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.
Police news near Wongabel
- Fatal traffic crash, Atherton Tablelands · Atherton, 21 Sept 2026
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australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/qld/wongabel/ · Australian Crime Map