Southern Moreton Bay Islands crime statistics
What the police recorded in the two police divisions that carry these islands’ names, month by month. Every figure comes from the Queensland Police Service’s open crime data, for the period the file states, with the rate the police publish beside it. Nothing here is estimated.
Which area the figures cover
The police publish these figures by police division. The open data file names two divisions for these islands: Russell Island and Macleay Island. No division in the file is named Lamb Island or Karragarra Island, and the file does not state which localities a division covers, so no division’s figure is split across islands on this page, and no claim is made here about which islands a division takes in.
Russell Island police division
884
reported offences in the last 12 months
down 3.4% against the previous 12 months (915)
15.0 offences per 1,000 people, the three categories added together
- Offences against the person
- 135 (2.3 per 1,000)
- Offences against property
- 202 (3.4 per 1,000)
- Other offences
- 547 (9.3 per 1,000)
Macleay Island police division
384
reported offences in the last 12 months
down 19% against the previous 12 months (476)
8.1 offences per 1,000 people, the three categories added together
- Offences against the person
- 53 (1.1 per 1,000)
- Offences against property
- 120 (2.5 per 1,000)
- Other offences
- 211 (4.5 per 1,000)
By offence category
| Category | Last 12 months | Previous 12 | Change | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All reported offences | 884 | 915 | down 3.4% | 15.0 |
| Offences against the person | 135 | 120 | up 13% | 2.3 |
| Assault | 98 | 73 | up 34% | 1.7 |
| Sexual Offences | 11 | 28 | down 61% | 0.2 |
| Robbery | 3 | 0 | no comparison available | 0.1 |
| Other offences against the person | 23 | 19 | up 21% | 0.4 |
| Offences against property | 202 | 176 | up 15% | 3.4 |
| Unlawful Entry | 30 | 26 | up 15% | 0.5 |
| Other Property Damage | 55 | 54 | up 1.9% | 0.9 |
| Unlawful use of a motor vehicle | 12 | 8 | up 50% | 0.2 |
| Other theft (excluding unlawful entry) | 78 | 73 | up 6.8% | 1.3 |
| Fraud | 19 | 7 | up 171% | 0.3 |
| Arson | 3 | 2 | up 50% | 0.1 |
| Handling Stolen Goods | 5 | 6 | down 17% | 0.1 |
| Other offences | 547 | 619 | down 12% | 9.3 |
| Drug Offences | 288 | 228 | up 26% | 4.9 |
| Traffic and Related Offences | 40 | 40 | about the same | 0.7 |
| Breach of a domestic violence protection order | 116 | 266 | down 56% | 2.0 |
| Good Order Offences | 45 | 31 | up 45% | 0.8 |
| Weapons Act Offences | 26 | 33 | down 21% | 0.4 |
| Trespassing and Vagrancy | 23 | 17 | up 35% | 0.4 |
| Miscellaneous Offences | 8 | 3 | up 167% | 0.1 |
| Liquor offences (excluding drunkenness) | 1 | 1 | about the same | 0.0 |
| Gaming, racing and betting offences | 0 | 0 | no comparison available | 0.0 |
| Stock Related Offences | 0 | 0 | no comparison available | 0.0 |
| Prostitution Offences | 0 | 0 | no comparison available | 0.0 |
The three bold rows are the totals the police publish; the indented rows are the published categories under each, and they add up to their total. “All reported offences” is those three totals added together, not a figure the police publish on its own. Rates are offences per 1,000 people, from the rate the police publish for the same division and month.
Month by month, two years
- Against the person
- Against property
- Other offences
The three categories the police publish. A quiet island month can be a handful of offences, so the line moves for small reasons as well as real ones.
How this compares
| Area | Offences against the person | Offences against property | Other offences |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russell Island police division | 2.3 | 3.4 | 9.3 |
| Macleay Island police division | 1.1 | 2.5 | 4.5 |
| Redland City (council area) | 0.7 | 2.3 | 2.7 |
| Queensland | — | — | — |
All four areas come from the same release, so they can be read side by side. A small population swings a lot from one month to the next, which is why this table uses a year rather than a month.
How to read this
- These are reported offences: what police recorded. Not every crime is reported or recorded, so this is not a count of everything that happened.
- The islands are small. A change of a handful of offences can move a percentage a long way, and a single busy month can look dramatic on the chart. Read the twelve-month figures before the monthly ones.
- A rate per 1,000 people is a share of the population, not a measure of risk to any one person.
- A figure belongs to a police division, not to an island. The published file names two divisions for these islands and does not name Lamb Island or Karragarra Island separately.
- Published figures are revised and re-released by the police, so a month's number can change.
The police make the same point on their own statistics page: care should be taken comparing one month with another, and a longer time series gives the more accurate comparison.
How many people live in these areas
The rate on this page is the one the police publish, calculated on the population of the division itself, so no separate population figure has to be assumed to produce it. The census counts below are the four localities, as the ABS publishes them, shown so the size of these places is clear.
| Locality (ABS 2021 Census) | People | Area code |
|---|---|---|
| Russell Island | 3,698 | SAL32497 |
| Macleay Island | 3,193 | SAL31731 |
| Lamb Island | 504 | SAL31626 |
| Karragarra Island | 240 | SAL31490 |
Read back from the published rate and the counts, the population the police use for each division is about 4,750 for the Russell Island division, and 3,880 for the Macleay Island division, and 173,330 for the Redland City Council division. The published file does not state those figures, and it does not say which localities a division covers, so the locality counts above are not used to calculate the rates on this page.
Where these figures come from
Queensland Police Service open crime data, published on the Queensland Government open data portal and linked from the QPS maps and statistics page. Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (Queensland Government), with the LGA and Queensland files under Attribution 4.0.
- Offence numbers—police divisions—monthly from July 2001 (the counts)
- Offence rates—police divisions—monthly from July 2001 (the rates)
- LGA reported offences number and rates (Redland City)
- Queensland offence numbers and rates, monthly from July 1997
The files carry a row for every month. The site keeps the most recent 24 months and re-reads the source on the 5th of each month; the figures on this page were fetched on 4 October 2026 and run to August 2026. While a refresh fails, the figures already published stay as they are.
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