December 10, 2015

How Many Mass Shootings Have There Been In Your Australian Neighbourhood This Year?

Suburb Insights

Slate has an excellent map of gun deaths in your neighbourhood this year for the United States. We’re all about localities here at Microburbs, so we thought we would do something similar for Australia. You can see on our state by state summary, that there were no mass shootings in any state in Australia in 2015.

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The suburb with the most mass shootings this year was Bondi, with 0 mass shootings, tying for first place, along with all 8,542 Australian suburbs.

Bondi Beach


Sydney’s Bondi Beach, the site of 0 mass shootings this year, has had just as many mass shootings as every other Australian suburb this year.

Fortitude

Edgy Brisbane suburb, Fortitude Valley, experienced no mass shootings in 2015, in line with the QLD average of 0.

Cottesloe

Perth’s Cottesloe experienced 0 mass shootings in 2015, with Western Australia continuing to track the national trend of 0 mass shootings per year in Australia.

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