--- title: Reported offences by month, Queensland, from July 1997 resource: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/ publisher: Queensland Police Service licence: CC BY 4.0 licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ version: 2026-09-11 rows: 350 fields: 93 source: https://open-crime-data.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/Crime%20Statistics/QLD_Reported_Offences_Number.csv source_sha256: 003377108694e3e1b24499b91a9c6c7aaf4cc6f522d364cc9616b8d12554453e language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Reported offences by month, Queensland, from July 1997 The number of offences reported to the Queensland Police Service each month since July 1997, statewide, with one column for each of about 90 offence categories. Updated monthly. Published by Queensland Police Service under CC BY 4.0 and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. Queensland Police Service has not endorsed this site. Also called: QPS reported offences monthly, Queensland offence numbers, QLD crime statistics, Queensland crime rates over time. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/v/2026-09-11/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/latest/data.csv (122 KB) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/latest/data.xlsx (159 KB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/latest/data.json (985 KB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/latest/data.parquet (97 KB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/latest/data.sqlite (131 KB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/latest/data.duckdb (700 KB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/latest/data.ndjson (976 KB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/latest/data.arrow (67 KB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/latest/data.csv.gz (52 KB) Pinned version 2026-09-11: `https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/v/2026-09-11/data.`. Dated versions never change. ## Query The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-offences-monthly/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-offences-monthly/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-offences-monthly/rows?month=eq.2026-08-01&limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-offences-monthly/aggregate?group=month&metric=sum.offences_against_the_person&month=eq.2026-08-01 Each filter is `field=operator.value` in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with `ilike`. Prefix `not.` to negate a filter, as `not.eq.value`. Operators: `eq.value`, `neq.value`, `gt.value`, `gte.value`, `lt.value`, `lte.value`, `like.*text*`, `ilike.*text*`, `in.(a,b,c)`, `is.null`. - `select`: Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent. - `order`: `field.asc` or `field.desc`, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent. - `limit`: Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent. - `offset`: Rows to skip. The `next` URL in each answer sets it for you. - `group`: On `aggregate`, fields to group by, comma-separated. - `metric`: On `aggregate`, `count`, `sum.field`, `avg.field`, `min.field` or `max.field`, comma-separated. `count` when absent. - `format`: `json`, `ndjson` or `csv`. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers. Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put `versions//` before `rows` or `aggregate` for an answer that never changes. `/api/v1/datasets//versions` lists the loaded versions. The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a `Retry-After` header, a `RateLimit-Policy` header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same `RateLimit-Policy`. A client should wait the `Retry-After` seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. OpenAPI for this dataset: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `month` | date | Month Year | The month the offences were reported, published as a month and two-digit year such as JUL97 and read as the first day of that month. | | `homicide_murder` | integer | Homicide (Murder) | | | `other_homicide` | integer | Other Homicide | | | `attempted_murder` | integer | Attempted Murder | | | `conspiracy_to_murder` | integer | Conspiracy to Murder | | | `manslaughter_excl_by_driving` | integer | Manslaughter (excl. by driving) | | | `driving_causing_death` | integer | Driving Causing Death | | | `manslaughter_unlawful_striking_causing_death` | integer | Manslaughter Unlawful Striking Causing Death | | | `assault` | integer | Assault | | | `grievous_assault` | integer | Grievous Assault | | | `serious_assault` | integer | Serious Assault | | | `serious_assault_other` | integer | Serious Assault (Other) | | | `common_assault` | integer | Common Assault' | The publisher's header ends in a stray apostrophe, Common Assault', kept as the source name. | | `sexual_offences` | integer | Sexual Offences | | | `rape_and_attempted_rape` | integer | Rape and Attempted Rape | | | `other_sexual_offences` | integer | Other Sexual Offences | | | `robbery` | integer | Robbery | | | `armed_robbery` | integer | Armed Robbery | | | `unarmed_robbery` | integer | Unarmed Robbery | | | `other_offences_against_the_person` | integer | Other Offences Against the Person | | | `kidnapping_abduction_etc` | integer | Kidnapping & Abduction etc. | | | `coercive_control` | integer | Coercive Control | | | `extortion` | integer | Extortion | | | `stalking` | integer | Stalking | | | `life_endangering_acts` | integer | Life Endangering Acts | | | `voluntary_assisted_dying` | integer | Voluntary Assisted Dying | | | `other_miscellaneous` | integer | Other Miscellaneous | | | `offences_against_the_person` | integer | Offences Against the Person | | | `unlawful_entry` | integer | Unlawful Entry | | | `unlawful_entry_with_intent_dwelling` | integer | Unlawful Entry With Intent - Dwelling | | | `unlawful_entry_without_violence_dwelling` | integer | Unlawful Entry Without Violence - Dwelling | | | `unlawful_entry_with_violence_dwelling` | integer | Unlawful Entry With Violence - Dwelling | | | `unlawful_entry_with_intent_shop` | integer | Unlawful Entry With Intent - Shop | | | `unlawful_entry_with_intent_other` | integer | Unlawful Entry With Intent - Other | | | `arson` | integer | Arson | | | `other_property_damage` | integer | Other Property Damage | | | `unlawful_use_of_motor_vehicle` | integer | Unlawful Use of Motor Vehicle | | | `other_theft_excl_unlawful_entry` | integer | Other Theft (excl. Unlawful Entry) | | | `stealing_from_dwellings` | integer | Stealing from Dwellings | | | `shop_stealing` | integer | Shop Stealing | | | `vehicles_steal_from_enter_with_intent` | integer | Vehicles (steal from/enter with intent) | | | `other_stealing` | integer | Other Stealing | | | `fraud` | integer | Fraud | | | `fraud_by_computer` | integer | Fraud by Computer | | | `fraud_by_cheque` | integer | Fraud by Cheque | | | `fraud_by_credit_card` | integer | Fraud by Credit Card | | | `identity_fraud` | integer | Identity Fraud | | | `other_fraud` | integer | Other Fraud | | | `handling_stolen_goods` | integer | Handling Stolen Goods | | | `possess_property_suspected_stolen` | integer | Possess Property Suspected Stolen | | | `receiving_stolen_property` | integer | Receiving Stolen Property | | | `possess_etc_tainted_property` | integer | Possess etc. Tainted Property | | | `other_handling_stolen_goods` | integer | Other Handling Stolen Goods | | | `offences_against_property` | integer | Offences Against Property | | | `drug_offences` | integer | Drug Offences | | | `trafficking_drugs` | integer | Trafficking Drugs | | | `possess_drugs` | integer | Possess Drugs | | | `produce_drugs` | integer | Produce Drugs | | | `sell_supply_drugs` | integer | Sell Supply Drugs | | | `other_drug_offences` | integer | Other Drug Offences | | | `prostitution_offences` | integer | Prostitution Offences | | | `found_in_places_used_for_purpose_of_prostitution_offences` | integer | Found in Places Used for Purpose of Prostitution Offences | | | `have_interest_in_premises_used_for_prostitution_offences` | integer | Have Interest in Premises Used for Prostitution Offences | | | `knowingly_participate_in_provision_prostitution_offences` | integer | Knowingly Participate in Provision Prostitution Offences | | | `public_soliciting` | integer | Public Soliciting | | | `procuring_prostitution` | integer | Procuring Prostitution | | | `permit_minor_to_be_at_a_place_used_for_prostitution_offences` | integer | Permit Minor to be at a Place Used for Prostitution Offences | | | `advertising_prostitution` | integer | Advertising Prostitution | | | `other_prostitution_offences` | integer | Other Prostitution Offences | | | `liquor_excl_drunkenness` | integer | Liquor (excl. Drunkenness) | | | `gaming_racing_betting_offences` | integer | Gaming Racing & Betting Offences | | | `breach_domestic_violence_protection_order` | integer | Breach Domestic Violence Protection Order | | | `trespassing_and_vagrancy` | integer | Trespassing and Vagrancy | | | `weapons_act_offences` | integer | Weapons Act Offences | | | `unlawful_possess_concealable_firearm` | integer | Unlawful Possess Concealable Firearm | | | `unlawful_possess_firearm_other` | integer | Unlawful Possess Firearm - Other | | | `bomb_possess_and_or_use_of` | integer | Bomb Possess and/or use of | | | `possess_and_or_use_other_weapons_restricted_items` | integer | Possess and/or use other weapons; restricted items | | | `weapons_act_offences_other` | integer | Weapons Act Offences - Other | | | `good_order_offences` | integer | Good Order Offences | | | `disobey_move_on_direction` | integer | Disobey Move-on Direction | | | `resist_incite_hinder_obstruct_police` | integer | Resist Incite Hinder Obstruct Police | | | `fare_evasion` | integer | Fare Evasion | | | `public_nuisance` | integer | Public Nuisance | | | `stock_related_offences` | integer | Stock Related Offences | | | `traffic_and_related_offences` | integer | Traffic and Related Offences | | | `dangerous_operation_of_a_vehicle` | integer | Dangerous Operation of a Vehicle | | | `drink_driving` | integer | Drink Driving | | | `disqualified_driving` | integer | Disqualified Driving | | | `interfere_with_mechanism_of_motor_vehicle` | integer | Interfere with Mechanism of Motor Vehicle | | | `e_mobility` | integer | E-mobility | | | `miscellaneous_offences` | integer | Miscellaneous Offences | | | `other_offences` | integer | Other Offences | | Key: `month`. ## Versions - 2026-09-11: 350 rows, 93 fields, sha256 003377108694. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/v/2026-09-11/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/history.tar.zst ## Same subject, other publishers - [Offences reported to police by suburb and day, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-crime-statistics/) (SA) - [Family and domestic abuse-related offences by postcode and quarter, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-family-domestic-abuse-offences/) (SA) - [Victims of family and domestic violence crimes by state, sex and year, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-fdv-victims-recorded-crime/) (Cth) - [Recorded offences by region and month, Northern Territory](https://publicdata.au/d/nt-crime-statistics/) (NT) - [Recorded offences by suburb and offence, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-recorded-offences-by-suburb/) (Vic) - [Domestic homicide victims by sex and year, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-domestic-homicide-victims/) (Cth) - [Family and domestic violence hospitalisations by relationship to perpetrator, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-fdv-hospitalisations/) (Cth) - [Recorded criminal incidents by council area and month, NSW](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-recorded-crime-by-lga/) (NSW) - [Recorded offences by council area and offence, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-recorded-offences-by-lga/) (Vic) - [Traffic infringements and charges issued by police district, Queensland, from 2013-14](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-traffic-infringements-issued/) (Qld) - [Traffic and camera offences and fines, ACT](https://publicdata.au/d/act-traffic-camera-offences/) (ACT) - [Traffic camera offences and fines, ACT, 2010 to 2021](https://publicdata.au/d/act-traffic-camera-offences-2010-2021/) (ACT) ## Attribution and citation Queensland Police Service, Queensland Government, Queensland Offence numbers, monthly from July 1997, sourced 3 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/offence-numbers-monthly-from-july-1997, licensed under CC BY 4.0. The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used. Plain text: Queensland Police Service, Queensland Government, Queensland Offence numbers, monthly from July 1997, sourced 3 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/offence-numbers-monthly-from-july-1997, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/v/2026-09-11/ Harvard: Queensland Police Service (2026) Reported offences by month, Queensland, from July 1997, version 2026-09-11 [data set], CC BY 4.0, sourced 3 October 2026. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au. Available at: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/v/2026-09-11/ Markdown: Data: [Reported offences by month, Queensland, from July 1997](https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/offence-numbers-monthly-from-july-1997), Queensland Police Service, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), sourced 3 October 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/v/2026-09-11/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Reported offences by month, Queensland as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/v/2026-09-11/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same. ### Can I open Reported offences by month, Queensland in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/v/2026-09-11/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 350 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-offences-monthly/v/2026-09-11/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### What years does Reported offences by month, Queensland cover? The current version covers 1997 to 2025. Each release from QPS becomes a new dated version here, and earlier versions stay online. ### How often is Reported offences by month, Queensland updated? QPS releases it monthly. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Reported offences by month, Queensland commercially? Yes. CC BY 4.0 allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file. ### Is this the official source for Reported offences by month, Queensland? No. The publisher is Queensland Police Service, and its page is https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/offence-numbers-monthly-from-july-1997. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.csv with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared. ### What is in each row? One month from July 1997, with the number of offences reported to the Queensland Police Service across the state in that month, one column per offence category. Some columns, such as Assault and Offences Against the Person, are groups that include other categories, so adding every column counts some offences more than once. ### Is this the number of crimes committed? It is the number of offences the police recorded as reported. An offence nobody reported is not counted, and police activity drives some categories, such as drug and good order offences. ### Why are some newer categories zero in early years? Categories such as Coercive Control, Voluntary Assisted Dying and E-mobility began when the law created them, and the publisher writes 0 for the months before. ## What this site did to the data Cells were typed, headers were renamed to snake_case and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. Nothing is derived. The publisher's file is beside every version as `source.csv`. ## Improve this dataset This page is built from [register/qld-offences-monthly.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/qld-offences-monthly.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.