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
Hawera South is an Area Unit in South Taranaki District covering 3.00 km2. Across the most recent 48-month window, the published victimisation data lists 1.4K reported victimisations here — an average of 29.0 per month, which is 2.1× the national area-unit average.
The most common reported offence type in Hawera South is theft (1.0K reports). Year-on-year reports rose 8.4% compared with the prior 12 months.
An indicative national-average social-cost rollup applied to this area is $8.4M — derived by multiplying offence counts by NZ Treasury / NZIER per-offence average cost estimates. This is a comparison index, not an actual loss for Hawera South.
// Where crime happens
- Dwelling N.F.D.5.6%
- Dwelling Land4.7%
- Dwelling Outbuilding1.6%
- Retail N.E.C.1.1%
- Educational1.0%