Insights
Short, data-driven reads on the things that shape a neighbourhood — crime, flood risk, development and who lives where — built from the same open government datasets behind our address lookups.
- Crime·
Revealed: the NSW suburbs with the lowest recorded-offence rates — and the highest
Gymea Bay recorded the lowest rate among NSW suburbs with at least 5,000 residents. Haymarket and Sydney recorded the highest; outside the CBD, Liverpool led the ranking.
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Revealed: where Queensland's recorded offences nearly doubled — and fell fastest
Recorded offences rose 99% in Yarrabilba and fell 58% in Middle Ridge between 2022 and 2025, an analysis of Queensland Police data shows.
- Development·
Perth is building a small city every year — and it's all happening on the fringe
Dwelling approvals in Perth's growth corridor have exploded: Wanneroo alone now green-lights close to 4,000 new homes a year, up more than 200%. We map where Western Australia's building boom is really happening — and which councils are building hardest per resident.
- Crime·
Crime in Cairns just hit a record high — and it's still climbing
Total recorded crime in the Cairns council area has hit its highest level on record — up more than a third in six years. One offence explains most of the surge: assault has nearly tripled since 2019.
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Canberra's Guilty Pleasure
Break-ins in the ACT are down 76% since 2001 and car theft has more than halved. But while property crime melted away, assaults went the other way. We chart Canberra's great crime divergence.
- Demographics·
180 years on, the Barossa is still Australia's German heartland
Nearly a third of Tanunda still claims German ancestry — four times the South Australian average. We map the wine-country towns where the descendants of 1840s Lutheran settlers never really left.
- Crime·
How theft shattered Melbourne's seven-year crime ceiling
For seven years, Melbourne's offence count refused to break out. Then recorded theft rose 89% in two years and supplied three-quarters of the increase.
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Sydney's great crime collapse is starting to crack
Robbery, break-ins and car theft remain 78–94% below their 2001 levels in the City of Sydney. But the latest turn in the chart is heading the other way.
- Crime·
For two decades, November broke Surfers Paradise. Then it just stopped.
For twenty years, crime in Surfers Paradise erupted every November as schoolies took over the strip. Since COVID, that spike has collapsed to nothing. We dug into two decades of Queensland Police data.
- Crime·
Brisbane crime forecast to overtake Logan
Everyone has a theory about which Brisbane suburbs are 'dodgy'. I pulled the Queensland Police data for every South East Queensland council and ranked them properly — by rate, not headlines.