Woorabinda crime rate and Crime Score · Queensland
Woorabinda is a suburb in the Woorabinda council area of Queensland (about 1,087 residents in the council). The council has a Crime Score 84 out of 100 (very high), 16th of 362 councils nationally.
Modelled estimate, not police figures: Woorabinda (1,019 residents at the 2021 Census) is estimated to account for about 810 of the offences recorded each year in the Woorabinda council area (likely 400 to 1,340), roughly 80,000 per 100,000 residents, including about 190 violent offences (likely 110 to 260). 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 (98th percentile), break-ins (96th percentile), sexual offences (96th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 85.
In 2025-26: violent 17,847 per 100,000 (+132% vs five years earlier); property 13,707 per 100,000 (+24% vs five years earlier); break-ins 2,668 per 100,000 (+11% vs five years earlier); theft 3,588 per 100,000 (+87% vs five years earlier). For violent crime that is 6th of 78 Queensland councils with data, highest first.
Unemployment in the Woorabinda council area is 22.3% (Queensland 5.4%), Census, 10 August 2021. Social housing makes up 88.6% of occupied homes (228 public and 14 community-housing dwellings at the 2021 Census; Queensland 3.3%). An estimated 8 people were homeless on Census night 2021, 75.8 per 10,000 residents (Queensland 43.5), apportioned from ABS Statistical Area Level 2 counts. 1% of residents were born overseas (Queensland 24.1%). Modelled estimates for 2026-27, not measurements: unemployment about 19.6% (confidence 66 of 100); social housing about 80.6% of homes; about 74.5 homeless people per 10,000 residents; about 1% 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 Woorabinda are those of the Woorabinda council area.
| Offences | Per 100,000 | Count | 5-yr change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 17,847 | 194 | +132% |
| Property | 13,707 | 149 | +24% |
| Break-ins | 2,668 | 29 | +11% |
| Theft | 3,588 | 39 | +87% |
How suburb estimates are made, and how accurate they are.
Woorabinda council area: full statistics · Interactive map of every council.
Crime in postcode 4713: every suburb and council it covers.
Questions
Is Woorabinda safe?
Queensland publishes crime figures by council area, not by suburb. Woorabinda is in the Woorabinda council area, which recorded 17,800 violent offences per 100,000 residents in 2025-26, 13 times the Queensland rate (1,380) and 13.9 times the national rate (1,280). A modelled estimate for Woorabinda itself is roughly 80,000 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.
australiancrimerate.com.au/suburb/qld/woorabinda/ · Australian Crime Map