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
Wanaka is an Area Unit in Queenstown-Lakes District covering 28.61 km2. Across the most recent 48-month window, the published victimisation data lists 1.8K reported victimisations here — an average of 35.5 per month, which is 2.6× the national area-unit average.
The most common reported offence type in Wanaka is theft (1.5K reports). Year-on-year reports fell 7.8% compared with the prior 12 months.
An indicative national-average social-cost rollup applied to this area is $10.6M — derived by multiplying offence counts by NZ Treasury / NZIER per-offence average cost estimates. This is a comparison index, not an actual loss for Wanaka.
// Where crime happens
- Dwelling Land37.2%
- Dwelling N.F.D.31.1%
- Dwelling Outbuilding7.4%
- Retail N.E.C.7.4%
- Residential Location N.F.D.4.1%