Auckland's safest suburb is Dannemora South (safety score 99/100, 3.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year). The least safe is Manukau Central (0/100, 2,487.9 per 1,000). 169 of 598 ranked Auckland suburbs score 70 or higher.
Town centres and retail hubs rank low because theft is recorded where it happens, not where offenders live.
Auckland's safest suburb is Dannemora South (safety score 99/100, 3.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year). The least safe is Manukau Central (0/100, 2,487.9 per 1,000). 169 of 598 ranked Auckland suburbs score 70 or higher.
Dannemora South, with a safety score of 99/100. The next safest are Point View, Greenhithe East, Surfdale.
Manukau Central (2,487.9 per 1,000), Auckland Airport (1,623.5 per 1,000), Queen Street (1,411.1 per 1,000). Town centres and retail hubs rank low because shoplifting and other theft is recorded where it happens.
By SafeSuburbs Safety Score, which weights each NZ Police recorded victimisation by harm (NZ Crime Harm Index) per 1,000 residents (2023 Census). Areas with fewer than 500 residents, with no crime records matched to them yet, or whose Police records stop partway through the period (usually a redrawn boundary) are listed but not ranked.
Showing 633 suburbs, safest first.
