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Crime and Social Profiles

Local Crime Areas, Queensland

2000-01

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1 INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................2

2 CRIME STATISTICS...........................................................................................................3

2.1 Overview...........................................................................................................................................................................3

2.2 Demographic Breakdowns ..........................................................................................................................................42.2.1 Median age............................................................................................................................................................. 42.2.2 Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSED) ........................................................................... 62.2.3 Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA).................................................................................... 82.2.4 Proportion Indigenous........................................................................................................................................ 11

2.3 Statistical Division........................................................................................................................................................142.3.1 Offences against the person .............................................................................................................................. 14

Offences against property.................................................................................................................................. 162.3.3 Other offences...................................................................................................................................................... 18

2.4 Small Crime Areas ......................................................................................................................................................202.4.1 Offences against the person .............................................................................................................................. 202.4.2 Offences against property.................................................................................................................................. 212.4.3 Other offences...................................................................................................................................................... 22

APPENDIX A METHODOLOGY............................................................................................23

A.1 Offence Categories ......................................................................................................................................................23

A.2 Converting Police Division Data to LGA Data....................................................................................................23

A.3 Aggregation of LGAs ..................................................................................................................................................24

A.4 Populations ....................................................................................................................................................................24

A.5 Rates ................................................................................................................................................................................24

A.6 Median Age....................................................................................................................................................................24

A.7 Male to Female Ratio..................................................................................................................................................24

APPENDIX B SMALL CRIME AREA SUMMARY TABLE ...............................................25

APPENDIX C LGA AND SMALL CRIME AREA PAIRS...................................................28

APPENDIX D MAPS OF QUEENSLAND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS.................32

APPENDIX E MAP OF STATISTICAL DIVISIONS OF QUEENSLAND........................34

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1 Introduction

This report has been prepared to provide an easy to use reference for relative crime rates at smallgeographical levels. It is an update of the ‘Queensland Local Government Area Crime Trends1995-96 to 1997-98’ report that was prepared in late 1999 and is available on The Office ofEconomic and Statistical Research’s website (www.statistics.qld.gov.au). The report containsanalysis of offence statistics for the period 1 July 1998 to 30 June 2001 at a regional level basedon Local Government Areas (LGAs). The regions used in this report are referred to as 'LocalCrime Areas' and are either Local Government Areas or, where populations are small,aggregations of neighbouring Local Government Areas (see Appendices A and C for furtherdetails).

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2 Crime Statistics

2.1 OverviewThere were 31,489 offences against the person recorded in Queensland in the financial year2000–01. This was made up largely of 18,675 assault offences (59.3% of the total) and 5,930sexual offences (18.8% of the total). The rate of offences against the person was 866 per100,000 persons.

Offences against property were considerably more prevalent. There were 313,516 offencesrecorded in 2000–01, representing a rate of 8,626 offences per 100,000 persons. Almost 70% ofthis was made up of unlawful entry with intent offences (24.6%), property damage offences(20.9%) and stealing offences (23.9%).

There were 108,349 other offences recorded in Queensland in 2000–2001. More than half ofthese were made up of drug offences (32.5%) and good order offences (21.9%). More than two-fifths (43.6%) were other offences, including traffic offences, breaches of domestic violenceorders, Weapons Act offences and miscellaneous offences.Table 1 Offence numbers and rates by offence type, Queensland, 2000–01

Number ofOffences

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Offences against the person 31,489 866 Homicide 226 6 Serious assault 11,089 305 Other assault 7,586 209 Sexual offences 5,930 163 Armed robbery 1,267 35 Unarmed robbery 1,222 34 Extortion 70 2 Kidnapping, abduction etc 357 10 Other offences against the person 3,742 103

Offences against property 313,516 8,626 Unlawful entry with intent - dwelling 44,525 1,225 Unlawful entry with intent - shop 9,021 248 Unlawful entry with intent - other 23,643 651 Arson 1,682 46 Other property damage 63,989 1,761 Motor vehicle theft 20,644 568 Stealing from dwellings 8,514 234 Shop stealing 13,908 383 Other stealing 52,418 1,442 Fraud 27,807 765 Handling stolen goods 6,131 169 Other offences against property 41,234 1,135

Other offences 108,349 2,981 Drug offences 35,241 970 Prostitution offences 557 15 Liquor (excl drunkeness) 1,459 40 Good order offences 23,767 654 Stock related offences 71 2 Other 47,254 1,300

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2.2 Demographic Breakdowns

2.2.1 Median age

Regions were broken into four categories of median age: 30 years or younger (576,204 people),31 to 33 years (1,685,763 people), 34 to 36 years (946,891 people) and 37 years or older(425,630 people).

Offences against the person

Across Queensland, regions with younger populations had higher rates of offences against theperson. More than 1,000 offences per 100,000 population occurred in regions where the medianage is 30 or below, nearly 50% higher than the rate for regions with median ages of 37 or over(figure 1).Figure 1 Rates of offences against the person per 100,000 population by median age of

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For offences against property, there was no relationship between the four median age groups andthe relative rates as was evident in the offences against the person. However, the regions withhigher median age had slightly lower rates (figure 2).Figure 2 Rates of offences against property per 100,000 population by median age of

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Rates for other offences were relatively low for the regions with the lowest and highest medianages, and slightly higher for regions with population with median ages in the middle age (figure3).

Figure 3 Rates of other offences per 100,000 population by median age, Queensland 2000-01

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2.2.2 Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSED)

The IRSED was created by the Australian Bureau of Statistics using data sourced from the 1996Census of Population and Housing as part of its Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA). Itprovides a composite index of the relative socio-economic disadvantage of areas based onvariables relating to employment status, income, educational qualifications, housing tenure,Indigenous population and various other related variables. Values for these variables from the1996 census have been combined to produce an index that allocates a score indicating therelative level of socio-economic disadvantage in a region. Included in this report are graphs ofthe population distribution in each region with respect to IRSED quintiles. These quintilesrepresent a division of scores such that one-fifth of Queensland’s population falls into eachcategory. Thus, an average LGA would have one-fifth of its population in each quintile. Thebase IRSED score is 1,000. That is, the average Australian area will have a score of 1,000, withmore disadvantaged areas scoring lower and less disadvantaged areas higher. The averageIRSED score for Queensland is 989.

For further information regarding SEIFA indexes including a detailed discussion of themethodology used to create them, see: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Cat. No. 2039.0,Information Paper: 1996 Census of Population and Housing – Socio-Economic Indexes forAreas.

Regions were broken into four categories of IRSED score: less than 900 (61,580 people), 900 toless than 950 (501,067 people), 950 to less than 1,000 (1,714,270 people) and 1,000 or higher(1,357,571 people).


Regions with IRSED scores in the lowest category (i.e. greater disadvantage) had rates ofoffences against the person more than three times higher than regions in all other categories.There was little difference between categories once the IRSED score was over 900 (figure 4).

Figure 4 Rates of offences against the person per 100,000 population by SEIFA IRSED score,Queensland, 2000–01

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A clear pattern was apparent for rates of offences against property. As the IRSED scoreincreased (i.e. disadvantage decreased), so did the rate of offences (figure 5).

Figure 5 Rates of offences against property per 100,000 population by SEIFA IRSED score,Queensland, 2000–01

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Rates for other offences showed a similar pattern to those for offences against the person.Regions with IRSED scores in the lowest category (i.e. greater disadvantage) had rates of otheroffences more than twice as high as all other categories. There was little difference betweencategories once the IRSED score was over 900 (figure 6).

Figure 6 Rates of other offences per 100,000 population by SEIFA IRSED score, Queensland,2000–01

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2.2.3 Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA)

The ARIA is an index developed by the Commonwealth Department of Health to measureaccessibility to services and the relative remoteness of places in Australia. The level ofremoteness of a location is calculated in terms of road travel times to population centres ofvarious sizes, known as service centres. The travel times from the centre of each LGA to thenearest service centre of four sizes – more than 250,000 people, 48,000 to 249,999 people,18,000 to 47,999 people, 5,000 to 17,999 people – was used to derive an overall accessibilityscore.

Further information is available in the Commonwealth ARIA paper: Accessibility/RemotenessIndex of Australia (ARIA), Department of Health and Aged Care: Canberra, 1999 (OccasionalPapers Series No. 14)”

This paper is available online at: http://www.health.gov.au/pubs/hfsocc/ocpanew14a.htm

Regions were broken into six ARIA categories: highly accessible (1) (2,442,415 people), highlyaccessible (2) (158,720 people), accessible (518,263 people), moderately accessible (363,800people), remote (97,070 people) and very remote (54,220) (figure 7).

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Figure 7 Map of Local Government Areas by ARIA classification, Queensland

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Regions that were more remote had higher rates of offences against the person. In particular,regions that were classified as very remote in the ARIA classification had rates more than 2.5times other categories. This is related to the proportion of Indigenous people in a region, asAboriginal communities are often located in regions classified as very remote (figure 8).Figure 8 Rates of offences against the person per 100,000 population by ARIA classification,

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Property offence rates showed a different pattern to offences against the person, with the highestrate occurring in the most accessible regions. This may be related to the availability ofopportunities for crimes against property in larger population centres. This also may be relatedto the proportion of juveniles in a region (figure 9).Figure 9 Rates of offences against property per 100,000 population by ARIA classification,

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Other offences

Regions that were more remote had higher rates of other offences. The rate of other offences invery remote areas was more than three times higher than that for regions in the highly accessible(1) regions. Again, this is possibly related to the proportion of Indigenous people in a region(figure 10).

Figure 10 Rates of other offences per 100,000 population by ARIA classification, Queensland,2000–01

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2.2.4 Proportion Indigenous

The proportion of each region’s population that was Indigenous was taken from the place ofusual residence data from the 1996 Census of Population and Housing. Indigenous includes bothAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Regions were split into four groups based on the proportion of the population that wasIndigenous: less than 5% (3,292,582 people), 5% to less than 10% (232,220 people), 10% to lessthan 20% (84,986 people) and 20% or more (24,700 people).

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The rate of offences against the person shows a clear pattern, rising as the proportion ofIndigenous people in the population rises. Regions that had a population that was at least 20%Indigenous had a rate of offences against the person more than seven times higher than that forregions with populations which were less than 5% Indigenous (figure 11).

Figure 11 Rates of offences against the person per 100,000 population by proportionidentifying as Indigenous, Queensland, 2000–01

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Figure 12 Rates of offences against property per 100,000 population by proportion identifyingas Indigenous, Queensland, 2000–01

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Other offences

Other offences followed a similar pattern to offences against the person, with high rates inregions with populations with a higher proportion of Indigenous population. Rates for regionswith between 5% and 20% Indigenous were quite similar, while regions with less than 5% had amarkedly lower rate and regions with 20% or more had a far higher rate (figure 13).

Figure 13 Rates of other offences per 100,000 population by proportion identifying asIndigenous, Queensland, 2000–01

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2.3 Statistical DivisionQueensland is made up of 11 statistical divisions (SDs) (see Appendix E). A summary of thegeneral crime trends in each statistical division has been included in this report to allow forcomparison between the smallest regions, the statistical division and the Queensland statistics.The majority of regions examined in this report are contained entirely in one statistical division,However, there are four regions that cross boundaries. These are Beaudesert (in Brisbane andMoreton SDs), Caboolture (in Brisbane and Moreton SDs), Ipswich (in Brisbane and MoretonSDs) and Jericho, Aramac, Barcaldine, Blackall, Isisford and Tambo (in Central West andFitzroy SDs). A list of regions and their SD is included in Appendix C.

Detailed results for the 11 statistical divisions are available in section 3.

2.3.1 Offences against the person

Moreton SD had the lowest rate of offences against the person. The highest rate of offencesagainst the person occurred in North West SD with a rate that was almost three times as high asthe second highest (South West SD) (table 2 and figure 14).Table 2 Offences against the person, number and rate by statistical division, Queensland, 2000–

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Brisbane 13,230 800Moreton 4,386 614Wide Bay-Burnett 2,709 1,137Darling Downs 1,509 742South West 391 1,540Fitzroy 1,782 973Central West 97 809Mackay 879 679Northern 1,899 938Far North 3,059 1,331North West 1,540 4,311

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Figure 14 Offences against the person, rate per 100,000 by statistical division, Queensland,2000–01

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1. Offences against property

The Central West Statistical Division had the lowest rate of offences against property, while theNorth West Statistical Division had the highest. Brisbane and Wide Bay-Burnett StatisticalDivisions also had high rates of offences against property.Table 3 Offences against property, number and rate by statistical division, Queensland, 2000–01


Brisbane 160,511 9,700

Moreton 54,521 7,637

Wide Bay-Burnett 23,590 9,904

Darling Downs 14,240 7,003

South West (QLD) 1,654 6,507

Fitzroy 13,452 7,346

Central West (QLD) 512 4,251

Mackay 7,375 5,698

Northern (QLD) 17,461 8,623

Far North 14,939 6,503

North West 5,241 14,671

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Figure 15 Offences against property, rate per 100,000 by statistical division, Queensland, 2000–01

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2.3.2 Other offences

Brisbane SD had the lowest rate of other offences, while the North West SD had the highest.The Far North, South West and Central West SDs also had high rates of other offences (table 4and figure 16).Table 4 Other offences, number and rate by statistical division, Queensland, 2000–01


Brisbane 38,105 2,303Moreton 16,625 2,329Wide Bay-Burnett 10,066 4,226Darling Downs 5,318 2,615South West 1,446 5,690Fitzroy 6,628 3,620Central West 651 5,405Mackay 3,676 2,840Northern 7,906 3,905Far North 13,584 5,913North West 4,171 11,676

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Figure 16 Other offences, rate per 100,000 by statistical division, Queensland, 2000–01

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2.4 Small Crime Areas

Detailed results for Crime Regions are available in the individual summary sheets on the Officeof Economic and Statistical Research's website: www.oesr.qld.gov.au.

Figures 17 to 19 show broad offence rates by small crime area.

2.4.1 Offences against the personFigure 17 Offences against the person, rates per 100,000 by Small Crime Area, Queensland,

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2.4.2 Offences against property

Figure 18 Offences against property, rates per 100,000 by Small Crime Area, Queensland,2000–01

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2.4.3 Other offences

Figure 19 Other offences, rates per 100,000 by Small Crime Area, Queensland, 2000–01

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Appendix A MethodologyAll statistics presented in this report are based on data obtained from the Queensland PoliceService (QPS) at the Police Division level. These data are made up of offences committed inQueensland from 1998–99 to 2000–01 by both adults and juveniles. These data have beenmapped to LGAs by the Office of Economic and Statistical Research (see section A.2) and thenaggregated where appropriate (see section A.3). Thus, these statistics are not official QPSstatistics and should be treated as estimates only.

A.1 Offence Categories

Throughout this report, offences have been divided into three broad groups: offences againstproperty, offences against the person and other offences.

Offences against property include unlawful entry with intent (dwelling), unlawful entry withintent (shop), unlawful entry with intent (other), arson, other property damage, motor vehicletheft, stealing from dwelling, shop stealing, other stealing, fraud, handling stolen goods andmiscellaneous property offences.

Offences against the person include homicide, serious assault, other assault, sexual offences,armed robbery, unarmed robbery, extortion, kidnapping/abduction etc and other offences againstthe person.

Other offences include good order offences, drug offences, prostitution offences, liquor offences(excluding drunkenness), stock related offences and miscellaneous offences.

A.2 Converting Police Division Data to LGA Data

The LGA boundaries used to create the regions in this report are those based on the 2001Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) (ABS, Cat. no.1216.0). In thisclassification, (C) means City, (S) means Shire and (T) is Town.

In some areas, Police Division and LGA boundaries were the same and therefore a one to oneconcordance was achievable. However, many Police Divisions cross boundaries of LGAs.Where this discordance occurred, the number of offences attributed to each LGA has beenestimated according to the population share of that part of the Police District in part of an LGA.This concordance was developed previously for the ‘Queensland Local Government Area CrimeTrends 1995-96 to 1997-98’ report based on counts from the 1996 Census of Population andHousing. This methodology does not consider other factors such as socio-economic influenceswhen allocating numbers of offences to LGAs and they should therefore be treated as estimatesand used with due caution.

Over the three years, QPS allocated 829 offences (368 in 1998–99, 260 in 1999–00 and 201 in2000–01) to the Police Division, Drug Enforcement Region (DER). These offences weredetected during covert operations and were not geographically classified in order to maintainstrict confidentiality. These offences were excluded from analysis in this report.

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A.3 Aggregation of LGAs

Summaries of offence numbers and rates have been prepared in relation to regions based onLocal Government Areas. In some cases, the populations of these areas are so small as to makethe production of rates for less common offences misleading. For example, if one arson offencewere committed in the Isisford LGA, the rate of arson would be 357 per 100,000 persons, morethan seven times the Queensland rate. Thus, LGAs with small populations have been aggregatedwith other nearby LGAs. A list of LGAs and the aggregated Small Crime Areas they form isprovided in Appendix C and a map of Queensland LGAs is provided in Appendix D

A.4 Populations

Rates were calculated for 1998–99 and 1999–2000 using the Estimated Residential Populations(ERPs) provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (Cat. no. 3235.3) for the end of each year.Thus, the population used to calculate rates for 1998-1999 is the ERP for 30 June, 1999. AsERPs were unavailable for 2001 at the time of preparation of this report, it was necessary to usethe middle series of population projections provided by the Queensland Department of LocalGovernment and Planning for the 2000–01 rates.

A.5 Rates

Included throughout the report are rates for the regions of interest and Queensland. These ratesare all expressed as the number of offences per 100,000 persons living in the region. Thus, thecalculation for the rate of a particular offence is:

no. offences in region * 100,000 population of region

A.6 Median Age

The median age for each region was taken from the 1996 Census of Population and Housing, butthe data for this field are only available for place of enumeration. Where LGAs were combined,it was necessary to use a weighted average of the medians for each LGA to estimate a medianage for the combined region. It should be noted that offences for both juvenile and adultoffenders are included here.

A.7 Male to Female Ratio

The data used to calculate the ratio of males to females in each region were taken from the placeof usual residence data from the 1996 Census of Population and Housing.

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Appendix B Small Crime Area Summary TableTable 5 Offence number and rate by Small Crime Area and broad offence category, 2000–01

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Other offences

Number of Rate (per Number of Rate (per Number of Rate (per

Small Crime Area offences 100,000) offences 100,000) offences 100,000)

Atherton (S) 77 706 416 3,817 660 6,055

Aurukun (S), Cook (S) 449 4,807 486 5,203 838 8,972

Balonne (S) 86 1,803 564 11,824 326 6,834

Banana (S) 73 534 551 4,020 385 2,807

Beaudesert (S) 161 290 1,985 3,575 674 1,214

Belyando (S), Nebo (S) 36 282 313 2,459 205 1,607

Bendemere (S), Booringa (S), Bungil (S),Waroo (S)

47 820 247 4,343 160 2,806

Boonah (S) 16 188 135 1,586 124 1,457

Bowen (S) 110 846 656 5,042 938 7,210

Brisbane (C) 7,424 850 99,787 11,427 22,078 2,528

Broadsound (S) 73 1,031 177 2,495 79 1,110

Bulloo (S), Paroo (S), Quilpie (S), Murweh (S) 187 2,133 548 6,237 742 8,449

Bundaberg (C) 411 903 3,640 7,997 1,070 2,351

Burdekin (S) 94 495 760 4,000 722 3,800

Burnett (S) 125 513 1,158 4,750 431 1,767

Caboolture (S) 843 697 8,852 7,316 2,194 1,813

Cairns (C) 1,651 1,305 11,124 8,793 8,278 6,543

Calliope (S) 114 715 726 4,565 389 2,449

Caloundra (C) 441 584 5,779 7,644 1,997 2,642

Cambooya (S), Clifton (S) 14 185 149 1,968 34 449

Cardwell (S) 121 1,166 496 4,778 964 9,287

Carpenteria (S), Burke (S), Mornington (S) 678 11,300 447 7,450 1,065 17,750

Charters Towers (C), Dalrymple (S) 127 1,024 667 5,376 548 4,415

Chinchilla (S) 21 370 185 3,206 161 2,781

Cloncurry (S), Flinders (S), McKinlay (S),Richmond (S) 94 1,234 358 4,692 375 4,912

Cooloola (S) 290 836 1,752 5,043 980 2,822

Crows Nest (S) 54 532 552 5,439 161 1,582

Dalby (T) 94 951 634 6,406 375 3,790

Douglas (S) 121 1,080 675 6,042 597 5,337

Duaringa (S) 121 1,352 585 6,546 305 3,416

Eacham (S) 52 790 108 1,641 148 2,249

Emerald (S), Bauhinia (S), Peak Downs (S) 128 680 921 4,895 763 4,055

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Esk (S) 106 727 547 3,740 381 2,603

Fitzroy (S), Mount Morgan (S) 131 960 910 6,689 455 3,340

Gatton (S) 96 609 644 4,084 412 2,613

Gayndah (S), Biggenden (S) 27 606 110 2,504 141 3,205

Gladstone (C) 387 1,357 2,996 10,494 1,560 5,463

Gold Coast (C) 3,234 792 45,455 11,138 11,506 2,819

Goondiwindi (T), Waggamba (S), Inglewood(S)

71 722 713 7,250 478 4,860

Herberton (S) 34 601 158 2,792 375 6,625

Hervey Bay (C) 368 809 3,292 7,240 1,561 3,433

Hinchinbrook (S) 178 1,148 585 3,769 642 4,133

Ipswich (C) 1,404 1,043 12,149 9,022 3,745 2,781

Isis (S) 43 677 298 4,693 259 4,079

Jericho (S), Aramac (S), Barcaldine (S),Blackall (S), Isisford (S), Tambo (S) 26 421 145 2,386 147 2,414

Johnstone (S) 195 936 759 3,642 1,128 5,413

Jondaryan (S) 82 676 664 5,452 206 1,692

Kilcoy (S) 29 871 90 2,703 75 2,252

Kingaroy (S) 106 903 637 5,426 434 3,697

Kolan (S), Perry (S) 22 389 131 2,314 131 2,314

Laidley (S) 87 601 467 3,227 419 2,896

Livingstone (S) 168 604 1,363 4,895 809 2,903

Logan (C) 1,634 925 16,190 9,167 3,644 2,064

Longreach (S), Ilfracombe (S), Barcoo (S),Diamantina (S), Winton (S), Boulia (S) 77 1,094 380 5,409 517 7,364

Mackay (C) 551 713 5,084 6,570 2,253 2,912

Mareeba (S), Croydon (S), Etheridge (S) 251 1,232 621 3,045 1,230 6,034

Maroochy (S) 884 695 10,709 8,425 3,337 2,625

Maryborough (C) 274 1,084 1,691 6,693 890 3,520

Mirani (S) 15 288 92 1,784 88 1,705

Miriam Vale (S) 30 606 223 4,505 221 4,465

Monto (S), Mundubbera (S), Eidsvold (S) 29 473 170 2,773 165 2,692

Mount Isa (C) 502 2,318 2,765 12,769 1,860 8,590

Murgon (S), Kilkivan (S), Wondai (S) 230 1,912 789 6,569 717 5,968

Murilla (S), Tara (S), Taroom (S) 83 912 339 3,723 259 2,845

Nanango (S) 70 814 297 3,453 350 4,070

Noosa (S) 235 542 3,108 7,173 1,028 2,372

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Other offences



Pine Rivers (S) 661 551 7,391 6,162 2,322 1,936

Pittsworth (S), Millmerran (S) 30 405 214 2,887 101 1,358

Redcliffe (C) 412 822 5,011 9,997 1,296 2,585

Redland (S) 600 506 6,847 5,771 1,720 1,450

Rockhampton (C) 655 1,095 5,386 9,004 1,950 3,260

Roma (T) 71 1,103 295 4,558 218 3,375

Rosalie (S) 62 715 248 2,860 195 2,252

Sarina (S) 54 512 361 3,425 272 2,587

Stanthorpe (S) 31 308 329 3,274 437 4,348

Thuringowa (C) 430 790 4,085 7,510 1,532 2,816

Tiaro (S), Woocoo (S) 75 926 384 4,758 269 3,340

Toowoomba (C) 806 910 9,055 10,221 1,916 2,163

Torres (S) 333 3,558 671 7,169 463 4,947

Townsville (C) 960 1,072 10,707 11,959 3,524 3,936

Wambo (S) 39 737 281 5,245 179 3,354

Warwick (S) 121 582 877 4,216 816 3,923

Whitsunday (S) 150 935 1,348 8,412 778 4,858

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Appendix C LGA and Small Crime Area PairsBelow is a list of Local Government Areas and the Small Crime Area in which they are includedfor the purpose of this report.

Table 6 LGA and crime region pairsLGA name Small Crime AreaAramac (S) Jericho (S), Aramac (S), Barcaldine (S), Blackall (S), Isisford (S), Tambo (S)

Atherton (S) Atherton (S)

Aurukun (S) Aurukun (S), Cook (S)

Balonne (S) Balonne (S)

Banana (S) Banana (S)

Barcaldine (S) Jericho (S), Aramac (S), Barcaldine (S), Blackall (S), Isisford (S), Tambo (S)

Barcoo (S) Longreach (S), Ilfracombe (S), Barcoo (S), Diamantina (S), Winton (S), Boulia (S)

Bauhinia (S) Emerald (S), Bauhinia (S), Peak Downs (S)

Beaudesert (S) Beaudesert (S)

Belyando (S) Belyando (S), Nebo (S)

Bendemere (S) Bendemere (S), Booringa (S), Bungil (S), Waroo (S)

Biggenden (S) Gayndah (S), Biggenden (S)

Blackall (S) Jericho (S), Aramac (S), Barcaldine (S), Blackall (S), Isisford (S), Tambo (S)

Boonah (S) Boonah (S)

Booringa (S) Bendemere (S), Booringa (S), Bungil (S), Waroo (S)

Boulia (S) Longreach (S), Ilfracombe (S), Barcoo (S), Diamantina (S), Winton (S), Boulia (S)

Bowen (S) Bowen (S)

Brisbane (C) Brisbane (C)

Broadsound (S) Broadsound (S)

Bulloo (S) Bulloo (S), Paroo (S), Quilpie (S), Murweh (S)

Bundaberg (C) Bundaberg (C)

Bungil (S) Bendemere (S), Booringa (S), Bungil (S), Waroo (S)

Burdekin (S) Burdekin (S)

Burke (S) Carpenteria (S), Burke (S), Mornington (S)

Burnett (S) Burnett (S)

Caboolture (S) Caboolture (S)

Cairns (C) Cairns (C)

Calliope (S) Calliope (S)

Caloundra (C) Caloundra (C)

Cambooya (S) Cambooya (S), Clifton (S)

Cardwell (S) Cardwell (S)

Carpentaria (S) Carpenteria (S), Burke (S), Mornington (S)

Charters Towers (C) Charters Towers (C), Dalrymple (S)

Chinchilla (S) Chinchilla (S)

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LGA Name Crime RegionClifton (S) Cambooya (S), Clifton (S)

Cloncurry (S) Cloncurry (S), Flinders (S), McKinlay (S), Richmond (S)

Cook (S) Aurukun (S), Cook (S)

Cooloola (S) Cooloola (S)

Crows Nest (S) Crows Nest (S)

Croydon (S) Mareeba (S), Croydon (S), Etheridge (S)

Dalby (T) Dalby (T)

Dalrymple (S) Charters Towers (C), Dalrymple (S)

Diamantina (S) Longreach (S), Ilfracombe (S), Barcoo (S), Diamantina (S), Winton (S), Boulia (S)

Douglas (S) Douglas (S)

Duaringa (S) Duaringa (S)

Eacham (S) Eacham (S)

Eidsvold (S) Monto (S), Mundubbera (S), Eidsvold (S)

Emerald (S) Emerald (S), Bauhinia (S), Peak Downs (S)

Esk (S) Esk (S)

Etheridge (S) Mareeba (S), Croydon (S), Etheridge (S)

Fitzroy (S) Fitzroy (S), Mount Morgan (S)

Flinders (S) Cloncurry (S), Flinders (S), McKinlay (S), Richmond (S)

Gatton (S) Gatton (S)

Gayndah (S) Gayndah (S), Biggenden (S)

Gladstone (C) Gladstone (C)

Gold Coast (C) Gold Coast (C)

Goondiwindi (T) Goondiwindi (T), Waggamba (S), Inglewood (S)

Herberton (S) Herberton (S)

Hervey Bay (C) Hervey Bay (C)

Hinchinbrook (S) Hinchinbrook (S)

Ilfracombe (S) Longreach (S), Ilfracombe (S), Barcoo (S), Diamantina (S), Winton (S), Boulia (S)

Inglewood (S) Goondiwindi (T), Waggamba (S), Inglewood (S)

Ipswich (C) Ipswich (C)

Isis (S) Isis (S)

Isisford (S) Jericho (S), Aramac (S), Barcaldine (S), Blackall (S), Isisford (S), Tambo (S)

Jericho (S) Jericho (S), Aramac (S), Barcaldine (S), Blackall (S), Isisford (S), Tambo (S)

Johnstone (S) Johnstone (S)

Jondaryan (S) Jondaryan (S)

Kilcoy (S) Kilcoy (S)

Kilkivan (S) Murgon (S), Kilkivan (S), Wondai (S)

Kingaroy (S) Kingaroy (S)

Kolan (S) Kolan (S), Perry (S)

Laidley (S) Laidley (S)

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LGA Name Crime RegionLivingstone (S) Livingstone (S)

Logan (C) Logan (C)

Longreach (S) Longreach (S), Ilfracombe (S), Barcoo (S), Diamantina (S), Winton (S), Boulia (S)

Mackay (C) Mackay (C)

McKinlay (S) Cloncurry (S), Flinders (S), McKinlay (S), Richmond (S)

Mareeba (S) Mareeba (S), Croydon (S), Etheridge (S)

Maroochy (S) Maroochy (S)

Maryborough (C) Maryborough (C)

Millmerran (S) Pittsworth (S), Millmerran (S)

Mirani (S) Mirani (S)

Miriam Vale (S) Miriam Vale (S)

Monto (S) Monto (S), Mundubbera (S), Eidsvold (S)

Mornington (S) Carpenteria (S), Burke (S), Mornington (S)

Mount Isa (C) Mount Isa (C)

Mount Morgan (S) Fitzroy (S), Mount Morgan (S)

Mundubbera (S) Monto (S), Mundubbera (S), Eidsvold (S)

Murgon (S) Murgon (S), Kilkivan (S), Wondai (S)

Murilla (S) Murilla (S), Tara (S), Taroom (S)

Murweh (S) Bulloo (S), Paroo (S), Quilpie (S), Murweh (S)

Nanango (S) Nanango (S)

Nebo (S) Belyando (S), Nebo (S)

Noosa (S) Noosa (S)

Paroo (S) Bulloo (S), Paroo (S), Quilpie (S), Murweh (S)

Peak Downs (S) Emerald (S), Bauhinia (S), Peak Downs (S)

Perry (S) Kolan (S), Perry (S)

Pine Rivers (S) Pine Rivers (S)

Pittsworth (S) Pittsworth (S), Millmerran (S)

Quilpie (S) Bulloo (S), Paroo (S), Quilpie (S), Murweh (S)

Redcliffe (C) Redcliffe (C)

Redland (S) Redland (S)

Richmond (S) Cloncurry (S), Flinders (S), McKinlay (S), Richmond (S)

Rockhampton (C) Rockhampton (C)

Roma (T) Roma (T)

Rosalie (S) Rosalie (S)

Sarina (S) Sarina (S)

Stanthorpe (S) Stanthorpe (S)

Tambo (S) Jericho (S), Aramac (S), Barcaldine (S), Blackall (S), Isisford (S), Tambo (S)

Tara (S) Murilla (S), Tara (S), Taroom (S)

Taroom (S) Murilla (S), Tara (S), Taroom (S)

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LGA Name Crime RegionThuringowa (C) Thuringowa (C)

Tiaro (S) Tiaro (S), Woocoo (S)

Toowoomba (C) Toowoomba (C)

Torres (S) Torres (S)

Townsville (C) Townsville (C)

Waggamba (S) Goondiwindi (T), Waggamba (S), Inglewood (S)

Wambo (S) Wambo (S)

Warroo (S) Bendemere (S), Booringa (S), Bungil (S), Waroo (S)

Warwick (S) Warwick (S)

Whitsunday (S) Whitsunday (S)

Winton (S) Longreach (S), Ilfracombe (S), Barcoo (S), Diamantina (S), Winton (S), Boulia (S)

Wondai (S) Murgon (S), Kilkivan (S), Wondai (S)

Woocoo (S) Tiaro (S), Woocoo (S)

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Appendix D Maps of Queensland Local Government Areas

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Appendix E Map of Statistical Divisions of Queensland

Moreton

Brisbane

Wide Bay-Burnett

Darling DownsSouth West

FitzroyCentral West

Mackay

Northern

Far North

North West

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