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 4.1K reported victimisations here — an average of 85.3 per month, which is 6.3× the national area-unit average.
The most common reported offence type in Northcote is theft (3.6K reports). Year-on-year reports fell 19.9% compared with the prior 12 months.
An indicative national-average social-cost rollup applied to this area is $15.7M — 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.2.0%
- Dwelling Land1.4%
- Dwelling N.F.D.0.7%
- Dwelling Outbuilding0.3%
- Educational0.2%