Takanini Industrial

Takanini Industrial recorded 135 offences in the last 12 months. It has about 21 residents, which is below the 500-resident threshold we use for comparing rates, so its crime rate per 1,000 people is not a reliable comparison with other suburbs. Judge it on the offence count, not the rate.

The most common offence category in Takanini Industrial is theft, with 83 recorded offences in the last 12 months — about 61% of all offences recorded there. The next most common is burglary (31).

Recorded offences in Takanini Industrial have risen 21.9% over the most recent three-month period compared with the previous three months. This is a three-month comparison, not a year-on-year one, and short windows move around a lot in small areas.

Takanini Industrial ranks 5 of 633 suburbs in Auckland by crime rate, where 1 is the highest rate. This is a ranking of recorded crime, not a safety rating, and it compares Takanini Industrial only with other suburbs in Auckland — not with the rest of New Zealand.

Figures for Takanini Industrial, Auckland come from New Zealand Police recorded victimisation data, published through police.govt.nz, and are grouped to Stats NZ Statistical Area 2 (SA2) boundaries. They count offences recorded by Police, so they reflect reporting and recording practice as well as underlying offending.