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
Petone Central is an Area Unit in Lower Hutt City covering 1.03 km2. Across the most recent 48-month window, the published victimisation data lists 5.2K reported victimisations here — an average of 101.7 per month, which is 7.5× the national area-unit average.
The most common reported offence type in Petone Central is theft (4.7K reports). Year-on-year reports rose 10.9% compared with the prior 12 months.
An indicative national-average social-cost rollup applied to this area is $16.2M — derived by multiplying offence counts by NZ Treasury / NZIER per-offence average cost estimates. This is a comparison index, not an actual loss for Petone Central.
// Where crime happens
- Retail N.E.C.40.8%
- Dwelling N.F.D.12.7%
- Dwelling Land11.7%
- Other Location N.F.D.10.4%
- Dwelling Outbuilding6.0%