4217 — Benowa, Bundall, Main Beach, Surfers Paradise
Recorded offences for Southport police division, Nov 2025 – Oct 2026. Roughly level with the 12 months before.
ABS 2021 postal area 4217 covers: Benowa, Bundall, Main Beach, Surfers Paradise. Crime figures below are labelled with their actual postcode or wider-area level.
- Police division · last 12 months
- 15,016
- Nov 2025 – Oct 2026
- Prior 12 months
- 14,754
- +1.8%
- Per 1,000 area residents
- 143.1
- QPS area population implied by published counts/rates 105,127
The Southport police division recorded 15,016 offences during Nov 2025 – Oct 2026. This is official area-level context for 4217 — Benowa, Bundall, Main Beach, Surfers Paradise, not a suburb or postcode offence total. The rate is 143.1 offences per 1,000 area residents, calculated from QPS's published monthly rates per 100,000. It does not use 4217 — Benowa, Bundall, Main Beach, Surfers Paradise's population. Recorded offences are not a measure of individual risk; visitor numbers, reporting practices and policing activity affect comparisons.
Five-year monthly trend
+1.8%Touch or hover to read a month
avg 1,180/mo
Dashed green line marks the average over displayed months. The orange dot is the latest month.
What was recorded
Offence categories, last 12 months.
- Theft4,518 · 30.1%
- Other3,880 · 25.8%
- Drug offences3,093 · 20.6%
- Assault1,090 · 7.3%
- Property damage836 · 5.6%
- Break-ins
Compared with nearby police divisions
| police divisions | Distance | Last 12 mo | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southport police divisionshown area4217 · Gold Coast City Council | — | 15,016 | 143.1 |
| Surfers Paradise police division · Police division | 4.9 km | 9,372 | 250.5 |
| Broadbeach police division · Police division | 9.0 km | 9,385 | 117.1 |
| Runaway Bay police division · Police division | 11 km | 3,507 | 81.7 |
LGA context: Gold Coast City Council
71,609 offences across the entire LGA, Nov 2025 – Oct 2026. 102.1 per 1,000 LGA residents, using QPS area populations. This is separate wider-area context, not additional offences to add to the figures above. Periods can differ.
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