The Crime Index for Townsville was 59.26, which is considered “moderate” and less than one point below “high”.A large number of respondents to the survey had said they were concerned about crime increasing in the past three years in Townsville, as well as having their home and car broken into.People responding to the survey said they did not feel safe walking around Townsville at night.The survey for the crime index was completed by 77,151 people across 5423 cities across the world, according to the Numbeo site.Topping the list as the most dangerous city in the world was Caracas in Venezuela, followed by Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea and Pietermaritzburg in South Africa.Pretoria, Durban and Johannesburg all in South Africa rounded out the fourth, fifth and sixth places on the list.The list from Numbeo uses user-generated reports of crime to provide an estimation of overall crime in an area. Picture: AAP Image/Regi VargheseDrugs, unemployment, pollution and “still having a video store” are a few of the clear indicators of a sh*t town, Furphy said.Five of Australia’s eight capital cities made the cut for Furphy and Rissole’s But it was the city of Logan in Queensland, a 30-minute drive from the state’s capital, that took out the top spot of “Sh*t Town of the Year”.“Bogan City” was voted “Sh*t Town of the Year” for several reasons, according to the ranking – namely because its entire council was sacked for alleged corruption and a “grub” stole 1000 litres of water from firefighters during bushfires.“Common hobbies in Logan include getting sh*tfaced and hitting someone with a bit of wood, committing ram raids in hot-wired Holden Colorados, and intergenerational welfare dependency,” the pair wrote in a review of the city.“A popular venue is the Logan Hyperdome, where flannel-clad rednecks fight to the death over Centrelink payments.”Coming in a close second is WA’s capital city of Perth, chosen for its “randy kookaburras” causing “mass blackout by rooting on powerlines”, a cafe that allegedly “serves kids brownies laced with weed”, the vegan who took her neighbours to court to stop their backyard barbecues, a “d*ckhead” whoSouth Australia’s capital of Adelaide, supposedly known as the “City of Churches, Pubs and Serial Killers”, took out third spot on the list.“The city’s roll of gory crimes includes a series of gruesome murders committed by a shadowy cabal of paedophiles, a series of gruesome murders committed by a bunch of drongos on the dole, and Jimmy Barnes’s musical career,” the pair wrote in a review.It earned its ranking for a dog that swallowed six balloons of heroin, a public servant who was sacked for “pi**ing in an office kettle”, and being named “meth capital” of the world.The ‘City of Churches, Pubs and Serial Killers’ came in third. Aussie cities Townsville and Darwin have been named as among some of the most dangerous places in the world in a shocking new list.How many Australians die by homicide each year and the horrifying ways they are losing their lives.Townsville in Queensland is now considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world.Two Aussie cities are now considered more dangerous than major capital cities in South America and Africa, according to an international crime index.Darwin and Townsville have been ranked alongside some of the most dangerous cities in the world, according to The list of dangerous cities ranks Darwin as Australia’s most dangerous city, coming in at number 50 on the overall index. Amid the devastating bushfires, we take a moment to look back at all of the moments that make Australia great.Perth was one of five of Australia’s capital cities that made the cut.Rick Furphy and Geoff Rissole are two men who have managed to ignite fury in the hearts of Australians everywhere, from Port Pirie to Alice Springs.
This may be an artifact of our information system. The results will be closely watched as they can point to where the federal government will allocate funding to encourage the right planning in cities. Australia’s most dangerous cities are Darwin (55.30) and Cairns (54.72), sitting way down the index at 86 and 92 respectively.