Crime in Townsville, Australia

I love it here, don't listen to the trolls like "Anonymous" below, crime here is no worse then any other city of its size. There is a small minority hell bent on spreading misinformation and keep yapping on about crime because they have no life and haven't experienced much of the world. "Tell that to the woman being raped" oh because women don't get raped anywhere else? why don't we ask Jill Meagher for her opinion oh thats right she was raped and killed in the supposedly most "liveable" city on earth Melbourne. So where did you end up moving to.. another planet? galapagos islands? good luck finding a place that is totally "safe" you words no longer mean anything as people realise Townsville isn't a victim of a crime "epidemic" it is a victim of some people that have both an anxiety disorder and verbal diarroea and won't shut up about how paranoid they are. Ugh.

I love the lifestyle here, moved here from Sunny Coast and never looked back, so much more advantageous up here. I work in a lab job and have been given a long term contract :)

I grew up in Townsville as a kid. I was attacked walking home from school by other kids. Our neighbourhood was one of the worst and we were classed as lower class poor. Not a good childhood at all. I still remember the bad childhood memories growing up in wulguru.

Townsville is a great spot to live, people who have never been here think its a bad place with lost of crimes committed, but when you live here its amazing and not a lot of crimes are committed in when you think about since its a fairly big place.

Townsville is the absolute pits of the earth. Fortunately, I only had a year (renewable) contract in the dive.
Needless to say, I didn't renew it...

Neighbour was broken into 4 times in 9 months. 3 in 6 months seemed to be a common theme when I was there. There's an undercurrent of scumbags that prey on those who do the right thing - that is, dare leave their house on a regular basis to go to work. Create a pattern, and you are an absolute sitting duck.

I've been to plenty a town and city Australia wide. But there's one thing about "The Ville" that just stands out. There is no middle class....

To begin with, I was a bit naive and slightly taken back. Doesn't the average Joe care? Can't they see what's going on around them? What if it was their daughter that was assaulted? The whole population can't be scumbags, can they? Well, in the case of Townsville, they are.

It turns out that the bulk of the descent folk fled the joint years ago. Those who are left are too scared to speak out, or as the case of some of those on this website are living in the 1980's. Drugs are rife, crime is out of control and the Aboriginal community are untouchable in the eyes of the law...

Either you live in a luxury pad up on the hill, are a local who turns a blind eye and are hence granted protection, or you will be the next victim.

Totally exaggerated- I’m there at least 4 months of year on 8 occasions. As anywhere you keep away from hot spots and always be aware. Townsville is a wonderful spot!!

It's fine, we should stop listening to the whingers

It is not that I don’t feel safe but half the time it sounds like someone is jumping my fence and trying to break in. I moved here from Brisbane but it could also be last year I had my house broken into so i’m a bit scared about it happening again.

It is laughable how scared Australians are of crime. We have the strictest laws in the world, the lowest rate of illegal weapons in the world, our homicide rate is only a fraction of what it was in the early 80's.... yet Australians act like crime is out of control.

Australians now live in the safest environment ever, by a mile. Australia is a country where you get stripped search at train stations, drug tested at random on the side of the road and can go to jail for having a slingshot or being in a pub with a bikie tattoo.

The more we complain the more ridiculous and embarrassing laws we will have. We are allready known as the worlds greatest nanny state and the more we complain the worse it will get.

My family moved here and we love it! No trouble at all and there is so much to do, Reef HQ, Maggie Island, Castle Hill, Crystal Creek, Bushwalking in Mt Elliot National Park, Kayaking off the Strand, Fishing off the breakwater, Museum of North Queensland, the facilities around the city are always looked after and I feel happy to live here

I love Townsville I can't believe the Townsville Bulletin is making a mountain out of nothing. I feel more unsafe in Brisbane then I do Townsville.

These poor kids that are reduced to having to borrow cars to get form A to Z and to do so have to deal with locked doors to get the keys.
On top of that the Police target them because of race.
What Townsville needs are the Dondale Commissioners to mediate with the kids who get treated unfairly and then must resort to breaking white man's law to get food or transport. The statistics show there is a problem with the Police classifying social issues as a crime.

mate those data is not coming out from sky. those data is real which means each number represent a sad family.

To to Anonomus.You say you live in townsville,And nowadays you never hear of any crime.LOL.Dont know where you hide,but it has the highest robberies/carjacking rate in oz pro-rata.People moving out of there as fast as they can sell ,if they can sell.LOL.

The problem isn't the "rich" who aren't employing anyone, the problem is the total disrespect for ones self and their future. Townsville is saturated with low IQ bogans without any sense of long term gratification - Why the hell should these people be given work? They should wither away and die in the way that evolution has intended for billions of years.