Safest suburbs in Townsville

Murray is Townsville's safest ranked suburb, with the city's lowest recorded crime. Rangewood and Jensen follow. These 15 suburbs came from a field of 39 eligible Townsville suburbs.

This page ranks Townsville suburbs from safest, leading on recorded crime and factoring in bushfire and flood risk. Each risk is measured relative to other suburbs in the same state, and suburbs without crime data are excluded rather than shown as risk-free. Only suburbs with at least 1,000 residents are ranked.

The score is crime-led: 60% recorded-crime safety, 20% bushfire and 20% flood, because the dominant question behind "safest suburbs" is crime — but a leafy suburb with serious bushfire exposure shouldn't top a safety list on low crime alone. Each leg is an inverted percentile within Townsville's pool, so a suburb reads as "safer than X% of Townsville" on that hazard. Crime is recorded-offence rate per resident from state police data, ranked within the state — it reflects reported offences, not your personal risk, and collection differs between states, so we never compare across state lines. Bushfire and flood come from mapped hazard overlays; a suburb with no mapped overlay scores as low-risk on that leg. This is descriptive risk data, not a guarantee about any individual street or property.

The safest suburbs in Townsville

Ranked on recorded crime (weighted heaviest), bushfire and flood risk — each measured relative to other suburbs in the same state. Suburbs without crime data are excluded rather than shown as risk-free.

1

Murray

QLD 4814 · 1,739 residents

82/100 safety · among Townsville's lowest recorded crime

B 81.6
2

Rangewood

QLD 4817 · 1,084 residents

80/100 safety · lower recorded crime than 97% of Townsville

B 80.0
3

Jensen

QLD 4818 · 1,797 residents

77/100 safety · lower recorded crime than 92% of Townsville

B 76.8
4

Bushland Beach

QLD 4818 · 6,641 residents

75/100 safety · lower recorded crime than 90% of Townsville

B 75.3
5

Annandale

QLD 4814 · 8,376 residents

74/100 safety · lower recorded crime than 87% of Townsville

B 73.7
6

Mount Low

QLD 4818 · 5,488 residents

71/100 safety · lower recorded crime than 83% of Townsville

C 71.3
7

Mount Louisa

QLD 4814 · 9,227 residents

69/100 safety · lower recorded crime than 79% of Townsville

B 69.0
8

Burdell

QLD 4818 · 7,171 residents

67/100 safety · lower recorded crime than 76% of Townsville

C 67.4
9

Alice River

QLD 4817 · 2,685 residents

67/100 safety · lower recorded crime than 95% of Townsville · some bushfire exposure

D 67.4
10

Douglas

QLD 4814 · 7,780 residents

63/100 safety · lower recorded crime than 68% of Townsville

B 62.6
11

Deeragun

QLD 4818 · 4,273 residents

63/100 safety · lower recorded crime than 68% of Townsville

D 62.6
12

Bohle Plains

QLD 4817 · 3,989 residents

61/100 safety · lower recorded crime than 83% of Townsville · some bushfire exposure

D 60.8
13

Kirwan

QLD 4817 · 20,780 residents

60/100 safety · lower recorded crime than 63% of Townsville

C 59.5
14

Cranbrook

QLD 4814 · 5,844 residents

58/100 safety · lower recorded crime than 60% of Townsville

C 57.9
15

Wulguru

QLD 4811 · 4,389 residents

56/100 safety · lower recorded crime than 57% of Townsville

C 55.5

Ranked from 39 qualifying suburbs.

How we ranked these

60% recorded crime · 20% bushfire · 20% flood. Each risk is turned into an inverted percentile within Townsville's candidate pool — the lowest-risk suburb scores highest on that leg — then blended, crime-led. Crime is the recorded-offence rate per resident from state police data, ranked within the state; it reflects reported offences, not personal risk, and is never compared across state lines. Bushfire and flood come from mapped hazard overlays. Suburbs without crime data are excluded rather than shown as risk-free. See how we calculate for the full methodology.

Common questions about this ranking

What are the safest suburbs in Townsville?

Murray is Townsville's safest ranked suburb, with the city's lowest recorded crime. Rangewood and Jensen follow. These 15 suburbs came from a field of 39 eligible Townsville suburbs.

How is this ranking scored?

Each eligible Townsville suburb is scored on three risks, crime-led: 60% recorded crime, 20% recorded bushfire history, and 20% flood overlays. Each is turned into an inverted percentile within Townsville — a suburb with the lowest recorded crime scores highest on the crime leg — then blended. Crime leads because it's the risk most people mean by 'safest'. QLD publishes no suburb-level flood overlay, so flood does not separate suburbs here; the order comes from crime and bushfire history.

What does the crime figure actually measure?

It's the rate of recorded offences per resident from state police data, ranked against other suburbs in the same state. Two important limits: it counts reported offences, not your personal risk, and different states record and categorise crime differently — so we only ever compare suburbs within the same state, never across state lines.

Why are some suburbs missing from the list?

A suburb only appears if it has crime data and at least 1,000 residents. Suburbs without a crime record are excluded rather than shown as risk-free — otherwise a data gap would masquerade as a perfectly safe suburb. In states where suburb-level crime data isn't published, this ranking isn't produced at all.

How often is this list updated?

The top 15 is recomputed whenever the underlying risk data refreshes — crime data on each state police release, and bushfire and flood as their mapped hazard overlays update. See the footer for the last computed date.

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Rankings last computed 28 September 2026. Recomputed after each ACARA schools data refresh.

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