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
Riccarton is an Area Unit in Christchurch City covering 1.09 km2. Across the most recent 48-month window, the published victimisation data lists 5.1K reported victimisations here — an average of 105.4 per month, which is 7.8× the national area-unit average.
The most common reported offence type in Riccarton is theft (4.1K reports). Year-on-year reports fell 16.7% compared with the prior 12 months.
An indicative national-average social-cost rollup applied to this area is $22.7M — derived by multiplying offence counts by NZ Treasury / NZIER per-offence average cost estimates. This is a comparison index, not an actual loss for Riccarton.
// Where crime happens
- Retail N.E.C.4.9%
- Dwelling Land2.3%
- Dwelling N.F.D.1.6%
- Other Location N.F.D.0.4%
- Dwelling Outbuilding0.4%