Te Rapa South

Te Rapa South recorded 1,641 offences in the last 12 months. It has about 201 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 Te Rapa South is theft, with 1,417 recorded offences in the last 12 months — about 86% of all offences recorded there. The next most common is burglary (129).

Recorded offences in Te Rapa South have fallen 1.5% 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.

Te Rapa South ranks 1 of 258 suburbs in Waikato Region by crime rate, where 1 is the highest rate. This is a ranking of recorded crime, not a safety rating, and it compares Te Rapa South only with other suburbs in Waikato Region — not with the rest of New Zealand.

Figures for Te Rapa South, Hamilton City 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.