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
Tawhai is an Area Unit in Lower Hutt City covering 6.28 km2. Across the most recent 48-month window, the published victimisation data lists 325 reported victimisations here — an average of 6.8 per month, which is 0.5× the national area-unit average.
The most common reported offence type in Tawhai is theft (166 reports). Year-on-year reports fell 9.2% compared with the prior 12 months.
An indicative national-average social-cost rollup applied to this area is $2.7M — derived by multiplying offence counts by NZ Treasury / NZIER per-offence average cost estimates. This is a comparison index, not an actual loss for Tawhai.
// Where crime happens
- Dwelling Land15.4%
- Dwelling N.F.D.12.6%
- Dwelling Outbuilding3.7%
- Residential Location N.F.D.0.6%
- Unspecified Location0.6%