4218 — Broadbeach, Broadbeach Waters, Mermaid Beach, Mermaid Waters
Recorded offences for Broadbeach police division, Nov 2025 – Oct 2026. Roughly level with the 12 months before.
ABS 2021 postal area 4218 covers: Broadbeach, Broadbeach Waters, Mermaid Beach, Mermaid Waters. Crime figures below are labelled with their actual postcode or wider-area level.
- Police division · last 12 months
- 9,385
- Nov 2025 – Oct 2026
- Prior 12 months
- 9,329
- +0.6%
- Per 1,000 area residents
- 117.1
- QPS area population implied by published counts/rates 80,376
The Broadbeach police division recorded 9,385 offences during Nov 2025 – Oct 2026. This is official area-level context for 4218 — Broadbeach, Broadbeach Waters, Mermaid Beach, Mermaid Waters, not a suburb or postcode offence total. The rate is 117.1 offences per 1,000 area residents, calculated from QPS's published monthly rates per 100,000. It does not use 4218 — Broadbeach, Broadbeach Waters, Mermaid Beach, Mermaid Waters's population. Recorded offences are not a measure of individual risk; visitor numbers, reporting practices and policing activity affect comparisons.
Five-year monthly trend
+0.6%Touch or hover to read a month
avg 751/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.
- Theft3,008 · 32.1%
- Drug offences2,184 · 23.3%
- Other2,181 · 23.2%
- Break-ins504 · 5.4%
- Assault488 · 5.2%
- Property damage
Compared with nearby police divisions
| police divisions | Distance | Last 12 mo | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broadbeach police divisionshown area4218 · Gold Coast City Council | — | 9,385 | 117.1 |
| Robina police division · Police division | 5.7 km | 3,985 | 88.2 |
| Surfers Paradise police division · Police division | 6.1 km | 9,372 | 250.5 |
| Southport police division · Police division | 9.0 km | 15,016 | 143.1 |
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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