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
Middleton is an Area Unit in Christchurch City covering 4.79 km2. Across the most recent 48-month window, the published victimisation data lists 3.1K reported victimisations here — an average of 59.9 per month, which is 4.4× the national area-unit average.
The most common reported offence type in Middleton is theft (2.4K reports). Year-on-year reports fell 29.2% compared with the prior 12 months.
An indicative national-average social-cost rollup applied to this area is $16.8M — derived by multiplying offence counts by NZ Treasury / NZIER per-offence average cost estimates. This is a comparison index, not an actual loss for Middleton.
// Where crime happens
- Retail N.E.C.26.0%
- Other Location N.F.D.20.8%
- Dwelling Land11.6%
- Dwelling N.F.D.8.6%
- Warehousing/Storage7.8%