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
Cooks Gardens is an Area Unit in Wanganui District covering 1.27 km2. Across the most recent 48-month window, the published victimisation data lists 3.4K reported victimisations here — an average of 70.3 per month, which is 5.2× the national area-unit average.
The most common reported offence type in Cooks Gardens is theft (2.7K reports). Year-on-year reports fell 8.7% compared with the prior 12 months.
An indicative national-average social-cost rollup applied to this area is $18.7M — derived by multiplying offence counts by NZ Treasury / NZIER per-offence average cost estimates. This is a comparison index, not an actual loss for Cooks Gardens.
// Where crime happens
- Retail N.E.C.3.1%
- Other Location N.F.D.1.4%
- Dwelling N.F.D.0.7%
- Unspecified Location0.5%
- Administrative/Professional0.3%