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
Porirua Central is an Area Unit in Porirua City covering 6.16 km2. Across the most recent 48-month window, the published victimisation data lists 3.9K reported victimisations here — an average of 76.7 per month, which is 5.7× the national area-unit average.
The most common reported offence type in Porirua Central is theft (3.0K reports). Year-on-year reports fell 16.4% compared with the prior 12 months.
An indicative national-average social-cost rollup applied to this area is $21.3M — derived by multiplying offence counts by NZ Treasury / NZIER per-offence average cost estimates. This is a comparison index, not an actual loss for Porirua Central.
// Where crime happens
- Retail N.E.C.32.4%
- Other Location N.F.D.14.7%
- Other Location N.E.C.10.4%
- Warehousing/Storage7.7%
- Residential Location N.F.D.4.3%