Crime incidents per 100 adults or households: NZ data and downloads
All offences: incidents per 100 adults was 59.4 per 100 in 2025, up 1.2% on a year earlier.
Updated
Source: Ministry of Justice. Last retrieved 10 October 2026.
Crime incidents per 100 adults or households
All offences: incidents per 100 adultsAll household offences: incidents per 100 householdsAll personal offences: incidents per 100 adultsBurglary: incidents per 100 householdsPhysical offences (assault and robbery): incidents per 100 adultsSexual assault: incidents per 100 adultsFraud and deception: incidents per 100 adults
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| Period | All offences: incidents per 100 adults (per 100) | All household offences: incidents per 100 households (per 100) | All personal offences: incidents per 100 adults (per 100) | Burglary: incidents per 100 households (per 100) | Physical offences (assault and robbery): incidents per 100 adults (per 100) | Sexual assault: incidents per 100 adults (per 100) | Fraud and deception: incidents per 100 adults (per 100) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59.4 | 27 | 32.7 | 12.9 | 4.5 | 4.9 | 12 |
| 2024 | 58.7 | 25.9 | 31.9 | 11.8 | 4.6 | 5 | 12.5 |
| 2023 | 59.1 | 28 | 29.9 | 12.8 | 5.6 | 4.4 | 12.7 |
| 2022 | 76.9 | 32.1 | 44.4 | 14.9 | 6.1 | 7 | 12.3 |
| 2021 | 60.9 | 31 | 29.4 | 16 | 5.2 | 5 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 59.9 | 32.5 | 29.4 | 17.5 | 5.9 | 4.2 | 6.9 |
2025All offences: incidents per 100 adults 59.4All household offences: incidents per 100 households 27All personal offences: incidents per 100 adults 32.7Burglary: incidents per 100 households 12.9Physical offences (assault and robbery): incidents per 100 adults 4.5Sexual assault: incidents per 100 adults 4.9Fraud and deception: incidents per 100 adults 12
Lines break at accounting-basis changes and missing periods. Source: Ministry of Justice.
Crime incidents per 100 adults or households: NZ data and downloads: definitions
How many crime incidents occurred per 100 adults (personal offences) or per 100 households (household offences) in the previous 12 months, from the NZ Crime and Victims Survey. Unlike the % victimised, this counts repeat victimisation.
Crime incidents per 100 adults or households: NZ data and downloads: comparison limits
These affect how the figures can be compared.
- Incident counts are driven heavily by a small number of people who are victimised repeatedly, so they move more from year to year than the % victimised.
- Survey estimates with 95% confidence intervals; this release shows 2018 and 2021 onwards (2019 and 2019/20 are in earlier releases).
- Not comparable with Police recorded crime.
Crime incidents per 100 adults or households: NZ data and downloads: data by period
The latest ten periods for up to the first six series. Downloads contain every published observation.
| Period | All offences: incidents per 100 adults | All household offences: incidents per 100 households | All personal offences: incidents per 100 adults | Burglary: incidents per 100 households | Physical offences (assault and robbery): incidents per 100 adults | Sexual assault: incidents per 100 adults |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59.4 per 100 | 27.0 per 100 | 32.7 per 100 | 12.9 per 100 | 4.5 per 100 | 4.9 per 100 |
| 2024 | 58.7 per 100 | 25.9 per 100 | 31.9 per 100 | 11.8 per 100 | 4.6 per 100 | 5.0 per 100 |
| 2023 | 59.1 per 100 | 28.0 per 100 | 29.9 per 100 | 12.8 per 100 | 5.6 per 100 | 4.4 per 100 |
| 2022 | 76.9 per 100 | 32.1 per 100 | 44.4 per 100 | 14.9 per 100 | 6.1 per 100 | 7.0 per 100 |
| 2021 | 60.9 per 100 | 31.0 per 100 | 29.4 per 100 | 16.0 per 100 | 5.2 per 100 | 5.0 per 100 |
| 2018 | 59.9 per 100 | 32.5 per 100 | 29.4 per 100 | 17.5 per 100 | 5.9 per 100 | 4.2 per 100 |
Crime incidents per 100 adults or households: NZ data and downloads: questions for your AI
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The attached CSV is Crime incidents per 100 adults or households (crime-incidents-rate), from Ministry of Justice, NZ Crime and Victims Survey: how much crime is there. Describe how each measure has changed, naming its unit and period. Treat changes in basis and missing periods as breaks. Distinguish observation from explanation. Limitations: Incident counts are driven heavily by a small number of people who are victimised repeatedly, so they move more from year to year than the % victimised. Survey estimates with 95% confidence intervals; this release shows 2018 and 2021 onwards (2019 and 2019/20 are in earlier releases). Not comparable with Police recorded crime.. Do not infer causation from changes during government terms.
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Crime incidents per 100 adults or households: NZ data and downloads: sources
The source publication, licence and snapshot used to build this page.
- Organisation
- Ministry of Justice, NZ Crime and Victims Survey: how much crime is there
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Ministry of Justice, NZ Crime and Victims Survey, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Snapshot
- data/raw/justice-nzcvs/2026-10-10_71252d209703.xlsx
- SHA256
- 71252d209703e22d8398563bfefaecd46a0e632028667fceb3b11f50886dbd90
- Retrieved
- 10 October 2026