Rotorua Central

Rotorua Central recorded 1,919 offences in the last 12 months. It has about 483 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 Rotorua Central is theft, with 1,558 recorded offences in the last 12 months — about 81% of all offences recorded there. The next most common is assault (215).

Recorded offences in Rotorua Central have fallen 20.2% 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.

Rotorua Central ranks 2 of 157 suburbs in Bay of Plenty Region by crime rate, where 1 is the highest rate. This is a ranking of recorded crime, not a safety rating, and it compares Rotorua Central only with other suburbs in Bay of Plenty Region — not with the rest of New Zealand.

Figures for Rotorua Central, Rotorua District 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.