Wairau Valley

Wairau Valley recorded 208 offences in the last 12 months. It has about 84 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 Wairau Valley is theft, with 160 recorded offences in the last 12 months — about 77% of all offences recorded there. The next most common is burglary (29).

Recorded offences in Wairau Valley have fallen 20.0% 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.

Wairau Valley 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 Wairau Valley only with other suburbs in Auckland — not with the rest of New Zealand.

Figures for Wairau Valley, 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.