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
Gisborne Central is an Area Unit in Gisborne District covering 3.45 km2. Across the most recent 53-month window, the published victimisation data lists 5.9K reported victimisations here — an average of 110.7 per month, which is 8.2× the national area-unit average.
The most common reported offence type in Gisborne Central is theft (4.3K reports). Year-on-year reports fell 2.8% compared with the prior 12 months.
An indicative national-average social-cost rollup applied to this area is $35.2M — derived by multiplying offence counts by NZ Treasury / NZIER per-offence average cost estimates. This is a comparison index, not an actual loss for Gisborne Central.
// Where crime happens
- Dwelling N.F.D.19.9%
- Retail N.E.C.19.0%
- Dwelling Land18.3%
- Other Location N.F.D.11.4%
- Educational5.1%