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
Paraparaumu Central is an Area Unit in Kapiti Coast District covering 10.06 km2. Across the most recent 53-month window, the published victimisation data lists 4.8K reported victimisations here — an average of 91.0 per month, which is 6.8× the national area-unit average.
The most common reported offence type in Paraparaumu Central is theft (3.7K reports). Year-on-year reports fell 10.7% compared with the prior 12 months.
An indicative national-average social-cost rollup applied to this area is $24.8M — derived by multiplying offence counts by NZ Treasury / NZIER per-offence average cost estimates. This is a comparison index, not an actual loss for Paraparaumu Central.
// Where crime happens
- Dwelling Land30.8%
- Dwelling N.F.D.22.1%
- Retail N.E.C.12.3%
- Other Location N.F.D.8.3%
- Dwelling Outbuilding8.0%