The figures below are aggregates derived from public victimisation data and are comparative against the NZ Area-Unit average — not an official assessment of any place, business, or person. Counts below 6 are suppressed to protect privacy. Read our methodology & terms and privacy notice.
// Summary
Cathedral Square is an Area Unit in Christchurch City covering 2.20 km2. Across the most recent 48-month window, the published victimisation data lists 9.4K reported victimisations here — an average of 184.1 per month, which is 13.6× the national area-unit average.
The most common reported offence type in Cathedral Square is theft (6.9K reports). Year-on-year reports fell 5.9% compared with the prior 12 months.
An indicative national-average social-cost rollup applied to this area is $62.2M — derived by multiplying offence counts by NZ Treasury / NZIER per-offence average cost estimates. This is a comparison index, not an actual loss for Cathedral Square.
// Where crime happens
- Retail N.E.C.43.7%
- Other Location N.F.D.12.4%
- Dwelling N.F.D.7.1%
- Other Location N.E.C.6.8%
- Dwelling Outbuilding5.1%