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
Hastings Central is an Area Unit in Hastings District covering 2.31 km2. Across the most recent 48-month window, the published victimisation data lists 6.9K reported victimisations here — an average of 134.5 per month, which is 9.9× the national area-unit average.
The most common reported offence type in Hastings Central is theft (5.5K reports). Year-on-year reports fell 10.9% compared with the prior 12 months.
An indicative national-average social-cost rollup applied to this area is $33.8M — derived by multiplying offence counts by NZ Treasury / NZIER per-offence average cost estimates. This is a comparison index, not an actual loss for Hastings Central.
// Where crime happens
- Retail N.E.C.31.8%
- Dwelling Land17.6%
- Dwelling N.F.D.17.6%
- Other Location N.F.D.7.6%
- Dwelling Outbuilding5.5%