Taranaki's safest suburb is Glen Avon (safety score 100/100, 1.5 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year). The least safe is New Plymouth Central (1/100, 751.4 per 1,000). 26 of 61 ranked Taranaki suburbs score 70 or higher.
Town centres and retail hubs rank low because theft is recorded where it happens, not where offenders live.
Taranaki's safest suburb is Glen Avon (safety score 100/100, 1.5 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year). The least safe is New Plymouth Central (1/100, 751.4 per 1,000). 26 of 61 ranked Taranaki suburbs score 70 or higher.
Glen Avon, with a safety score of 100/100. The next safest are Ferndale, Omata, Highlands Park (New Plymouth District).
New Plymouth Central (751.4 per 1,000), Hāwera Central (117.8 per 1,000), Ōpunake (42.7 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 66 suburbs, safest first.
