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 340 reported victimisations here — an average of 6.7 per month, which is 0.5× the national area-unit average.
The most common reported offence type in Tawhai is theft (175 reports). Year-on-year reports fell 25.3% 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 Land44.0%
- Dwelling N.F.D.37.1%
- Dwelling Outbuilding11.2%
- Unspecified Location2.6%
- Residential Location N.F.D.1.7%