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Suburb - Crime

Recorded crime by suburb (Queensland)

GET/v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/crime/recorded-offences-qld-suburbs5¢ per call

Police-recorded offences in Queensland by suburb, per calendar year for 2022-2025, by broad offence type.

Coverage: Queensland: 3,015 suburbs; calendar years 2022-2025. Excludes sexual offences and breaches of domestic-violence orders, which police do not map publicly (about a quarter of all recorded offences); for complete totals use the council-level Queensland dataset. Current to 2025-12-31. Full description, field list and method: /v1/datasets/recorded-crime-qld-suburb.

Exact suburb identifier required. Exact official suburb name (SAL), e.g. Burwood (NSW) — many suburbs carry a state suffix. If starting from free text or an unverified bare name, first call GET /v1/geocode/suburb?q=<text>, then use the exact data[].area_name it returns. Suburb data endpoints do not guess a state or typo-correct names.

Authorization

Bearer tokentest

Sandbox key test works for the allowlisted GNAF + SAL — no signup.

Request

The only values you send. Fields under Responses below are what comes back — you never pass those.

Path parameters

suburb_namestringrequired

Exact official suburb name (SAL), e.g. `Burwood (NSW)` — many suburbs carry a state suffix. If starting from free text or an unverified bare name, first call `GET /v1/geocode/suburb?q=<text>`, then use the exact `data[].area_name` it returns. Suburb data endpoints do not guess a state or typo-correct names.

Query parameters

fieldsstringoptional

Comma-separated subset of: total_offences, arson, assault, drug_offences, fraud, gaming_racing_and_betting_offences, good_order_offences, handling_stolen_goods, homicide_murder, liquor_excl_drunkenness, miscellaneous_offences, other_homicide, other_offences_against_the_person, other_property_damage, other_theft_excl_unlawful_entry, prostitution_offences, robbery, stock_related_offences, traffic_and_related_offences, trespassing_and_vagrancy, unlawful_entry, unlawful_use_of_motor_vehicle, weapons_act_offences. Omit for all.

fromstringoptional

First period to include: 2020, 2020-Q3, 2020-07 or 2020-07-01.

tostringoptional

Last period to include, same formats as `from`.

Responses

Successful Response

application/json

DatasetValuesfields returned to you

datasetstringalways returned

Dataset slug; describe it with /v1/datasets/{slug}.

levelstringalways returned

suburb, lga or block.

areastringalways returned

Canonical name (or mesh-block code) of the area answered.

period_typestringalways returned

snapshot, year, financial_year, quarter or month.

as_ofstring · datealways returned

Date the dataset is current to. Values are never withheld for age; check this instead.

modelledbooleanalways returned

True when the figures are estimates from a model rather than counts or measurements.

fieldsarray of DatasetFieldSeriesalways returned

GET/v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/crime/recorded-offences-qld-suburbs

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.microburbs.com.au/v1/suburbs/Belmont%20North/crime/recorded-offences-qld-suburbs' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer test'

Example Responses

Show schema

{
  "data": {
    "dataset": "recorded-crime-qld-suburb",
    "level": "suburb",
    "area": "Fortitude Valley",
    "period_type": "year",
    "as_of": "2025-12-31",
    "modelled": false,
    "fields": [
      {
        "field": "total_offences",
        "name": "Total recorded offences",
        "unit": "count",
        "values": [
          {
            "period": "2023",
            "period_start": "2023-01-01",
            "value": 6009
          },
          {
            "period": "2024",
            "period_start": "2024-01-01",
            "value": 6363
          },
          {
            "period": "2025",
            "period_start": "2025-01-01",
            "value": 6878
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "field": "arson",
        "name": "Arson",
        "unit": "count",
        "values": [
          {
            "period": "2023",
            "period_start": "2023-01-01",
            "value": 5
          },
          {
            "period": "2024",
            "period_start": "2024-01-01",
            "value": 2
          },
          {
            "period": "2025",
            "period_start": "2025-01-01",
            "value": 2
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "field": "assault",
        "name": "Assault",
        "unit": "count",
        "values": [
          {
            "period": "2023",
            "period_start": "2023-01-01",
            "value": 534
          },
          {
            "period": "2024",
            "period_start": "2024-01-01",
            "value": 562
          },
          {
            "period": "2025",
            "period_start": "2025-01-01",
            "value": 613
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

Successful Response200

application/json

About this dataset

Queensland: 3,015 suburbs; calendar years 2022-2025. Excludes sexual offences and breaches of domestic-violence orders, which police do not map publicly (about a quarter of all recorded offences); for complete totals use the council-level Queensland dataset. Current to 2025-12-31; refreshed yearly.

What it is

Offences recorded by police in Queensland, counted per calendar year for 2022 to 2025, by suburb. Each broad offence type is its own field, plus a total.

What it shows

The number of offences police recorded in each suburb for each broad offence type: unlawful entry (break-ins), other theft, unlawful use of a motor vehicle, assault, robbery, other offences against the person, property damage, arson, drug, weapons, fraud, handling stolen goods, good order and traffic-related offences, homicide, and a total. Sexual offences and domestic-violence order breaches are not published by suburb and are not included, so the total is about three quarters of the state's recorded offences.

Why use it

Suburb-level recorded counts for Queensland, which our council-level Queensland dataset cannot give: compare a suburb with its neighbours, see whether break-ins or assaults are rising, and back a suburb report with official counts.

How it is built

We take every individual offence police map publicly (type, date and location), count them per suburb and calendar year, and match each suburb to our names. Sexual offences and domestic-violence order breaches are not in the public map feed, so totals here are about three-quarters of the full recorded figure — the council-level Queensland dataset has the complete count. Only four complete calendar years are available because the public map feed keeps the last five years. Suburbs we cannot match one-to-one are left out. Counts are offences recorded by police, not convictions, and they rise when police target an offence (drug and weapons detections especially). Counts are not divided by population; a busy commercial centre records far more than a residential suburb of the same size. A period with no recorded offence of a type is returned as 0. Offence categories follow the state's own scheme and are not comparable one-to-one between states.

Fields

Field	Unit	Description
`total_offences` Total recorded offences	count	All police-recorded offences in the area for the calendar year, summed across every offence type.
`arson` Arson	count	Number of police-recorded offences of arson in the area during the calendar year.
`assault` Assault	count	Number of police-recorded offences of assault in the area during the calendar year.
`drug_offences` Drug Offences	count	Number of police-recorded offences of drug Offences in the area during the calendar year.
`fraud` Fraud	count	Number of police-recorded offences of fraud in the area during the calendar year.
`gaming_racing_and_betting_offences` Gaming Racing & Betting Offences	count	Number of police-recorded offences of gaming Racing & Betting Offences in the area during the calendar year.
`good_order_offences` Good Order Offences	count	Number of police-recorded offences of good Order Offences in the area during the calendar year.
`handling_stolen_goods` Handling Stolen Goods	count	Number of police-recorded offences of handling Stolen Goods in the area during the calendar year.
`homicide_murder` Homicide (Murder)	count	Number of police-recorded offences of homicide (Murder) in the area during the calendar year.
`liquor_excl_drunkenness` Liquor (excl. Drunkenness)	count	Number of police-recorded offences of liquor (excl. Drunkenness) in the area during the calendar year.
`miscellaneous_offences` Miscellaneous Offences	count	Number of police-recorded offences of miscellaneous Offences in the area during the calendar year.
`other_homicide` Other Homicide	count	Number of police-recorded offences of other Homicide in the area during the calendar year.
`other_offences_against_the_person` Other Offences Against the Person	count	Number of police-recorded offences of other Offences Against the Person in the area during the calendar year.
`other_property_damage` Other Property Damage	count	Number of police-recorded offences of other Property Damage in the area during the calendar year.
`other_theft_excl_unlawful_entry` Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry)	count	Number of police-recorded offences of other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry) in the area during the calendar year.
`prostitution_offences` Prostitution Offences	count	Number of police-recorded offences of prostitution Offences in the area during the calendar year.
`robbery` Robbery	count	Number of police-recorded offences of robbery in the area during the calendar year.
`stock_related_offences` Stock Related Offences	count	Number of police-recorded offences of stock Related Offences in the area during the calendar year.
`traffic_and_related_offences` Traffic and Related Offences	count	Number of police-recorded offences of traffic and Related Offences in the area during the calendar year.
`trespassing_and_vagrancy` Trespassing and Vagrancy	count	Number of police-recorded offences of trespassing and Vagrancy in the area during the calendar year.
`unlawful_entry` Unlawful Entry	count	Number of police-recorded offences of unlawful Entry in the area during the calendar year.
`unlawful_use_of_motor_vehicle` Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle	count	Number of police-recorded offences of unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle in the area during the calendar year.
`weapons_act_offences` Weapons Act Offences	count	Number of police-recorded offences of weapons Act Offences in the area during the calendar year.