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
Northcote is an Area Unit in Christchurch City covering 1.15 km2. Across the most recent 48-month window, the published victimisation data lists 4.3K reported victimisations here — an average of 84.3 per month, which is 6.2× the national area-unit average.
The most common reported offence type in Northcote is theft (3.8K reports). Year-on-year reports fell 23.2% compared with the prior 12 months.
An indicative national-average social-cost rollup applied to this area is $16.7M — derived by multiplying offence counts by NZ Treasury / NZIER per-offence average cost estimates. This is a comparison index, not an actual loss for Northcote.
// Where crime happens
- Retail N.E.C.38.0%
- Dwelling Land24.0%
- Dwelling N.F.D.11.2%
- Dwelling Outbuilding5.6%
- Educational4.0%