What is the crime rate in Cairns?

Hi Paul, Looking at moving to cairns and purchasing a property before moving across, any tips on family friendly suburbs? Thanking you

We moved from Hervey Bay four years ago and have been living in Manunda for three years. No issues. We love being so close to the city and services. We have five indigenous families in our street. Its not true they dont care. All keep tidy yards and work. Its wrong to tar everyone with the same brush. I was a probation officer for many years and saw more anglo offenders than indigenous. Crime is everywhere. Just Cairns has more indigenous residents so feature more in crime statistics. One of Cairns biggest attractions is its cultural diversity. We love the place.

Hi Paul what suburb do you live.

Ive lived in edgehill, manunda and marlin marina in total 23yrs. Ive had car breakin in manunda and marlin marina. Attempted house breakin twice in manunda. Stolen pushbike (secured) from marlin marina. I left cairns as persistent crime foy yrs and yrs. Now living south and do not see crime at even a fraction of cairns.

I totally agree l left not worth the trouble police didnt even charge the scum that stole my work car and tools worth 9k. Police said we questioned them and said it wasnt them. Print ink all over car wrecked. House broken into 4 times. Full of thieving sneaky grubbs of society.

I built in Manunda in early 1970s was great . Sold house in 2019 for 200k less than would expect because of crime . Cannot walk after dark. Indigenous crime out of control. Even had them breaking into bottom story of my house at 2am weeks before I left in 2019 . They dont care. High school and west cairns primary school now ghettos. Dont even think of living in Manunda.now in south west Sydney. Is paradise compared to manunda crime.

Absolute nonsense. Trinity Bay High School (Manunda) has been much developed and is a super, multicultural school (possibly what inspired the earlier comments). Most of the social housing houses that were here have been sold and many more properties have been or are being modernised and improved. Crime is nowhere near as bad as implied and inflated here (Sydney, come on). We've just had a great few days on the beautiful Gold Coast but still witnessed more antisocial behaviour in those few days there than we have seen in years here.

The schools are really good

I'm 63 was walking to the shops in earlville . Was abused threatened goaded and assaulted by indigenous male pushing a pushbike . Was assaulted inside shopping centre by thistle. Reported it to security am yet to be called by police. Your right they get away with it .

It's true the aboriginals cause alot if crime the police don't do anything I guess violence and home and car robberies aren't as important as vehicle revenue raising or someone driving over the speed limit by five ks. The law is backward on crime. The cops and magistrates are USELESS up here. God forbid if my number plate light wasn't working.

I have lived in Brinsmead Cairns for 32 years , crime is out of control , wife will not go out by herself to shopping centres , looking to move south to areas that do not have youth crime.

It would be interesting to see the per capita crime rate - Cairns seems to have a lot of crime in the inner city and walking around the inner city of cairns I do not feel safe. You need to move to smaller towns to live in a place with a genuine low crime rate - just my opinion .... but look at statistics - facts dont generally lie ...

Hi Nessie, we are looking to move from Sydney to Cairns. Which suburbs in Cairns would you recommend?

I would avoid the M suburbs, Smithfield is in North Cairns and is a great place to live

Do you say avoid the M suburbs based on flooding? I read this somewhere today, or for other reasons?

Def avoid m suburbs due to relenting petty crime. However read the latest stastics and you will find even the best suburbs ( traditionally) are in a crime wave. Just look at the 20 or so percent youth unemployment !

I have lived in City View Estate in (Upper) Mooroobool for 20 years and never had a problem. Fairly quiet street and great neighbours. The M suburbs are huge so making a sweeping generalisation that they are no good is ridiculous. Upper Mooroobool is the place to look. Type in the suburbs or towns in the crime stats. https://qps-ocm.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/index.html

We love living in Manunda. No issues and so close to city and services. The M suburb prejudice is kept alive by people who probably have never lived in an M suburb, and like to sustain a sense of their own superiority by denigrating those of us who do.

M suburbs have gentrified.

Its fine, except the primary school isn't great if you have young kids.

From a cairns resident. Don't move to this shithole unless your living at the beaches. More crimes go unreported then the statistics display. More cars are stolen a year in cairns then brisbane and cairns is a fraction of the size. Suburbs not to live. Edmo, bentley, Earlville, woree (especially near woree iga), bottom of bayview, mooroobool ( cityview is aight) parramatta, ANY suburb around the city, certain area's in redlynch. Most of the other suburbs have shit stolen but not as bad