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
Hutt Central is an Area Unit in Lower Hutt City covering 2.37 km2. Across the most recent 48-month window, the published victimisation data lists 7.6K reported victimisations here — an average of 158.9 per month, which is 11.7× the national area-unit average.
The most common reported offence type in Hutt Central is theft (6.5K reports). Year-on-year reports fell 21.6% compared with the prior 12 months.
An indicative national-average social-cost rollup applied to this area is $34.3M — derived by multiplying offence counts by NZ Treasury / NZIER per-offence average cost estimates. This is a comparison index, not an actual loss for Hutt Central.
// Where crime happens
- Retail N.E.C.3.7%
- Dwelling Land0.8%
- Dwelling N.F.D.0.6%
- Other Location N.F.D.0.4%
- Dwelling Outbuilding0.2%