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
Takaro is an Area Unit in Palmerston North City covering 1.95 km2. Across the most recent 48-month window, the published victimisation data lists 2.5K reported victimisations here — an average of 51.4 per month, which is 3.8× the national area-unit average.
The most common reported offence type in Takaro is theft (1.8K reports). Year-on-year reports rose 19.2% compared with the prior 12 months.
An indicative national-average social-cost rollup applied to this area is $13.1M — derived by multiplying offence counts by NZ Treasury / NZIER per-offence average cost estimates. This is a comparison index, not an actual loss for Takaro.
// Where crime happens
- Dwelling Land7.6%
- Dwelling N.F.D.4.3%
- Retail N.E.C.1.6%
- Dwelling Outbuilding1.2%
- Warehousing/Storage0.4%