Waikato's safest suburb is Rangatira Park (safety score 99/100, 7.2 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year). The least safe is Hamilton Central (0/100, 2,742.5 per 1,000). 52 of 237 ranked Waikato suburbs score 70 or higher.
Town centres and retail hubs rank low because theft is recorded where it happens, not where offenders live.
Waikato's safest suburb is Rangatira Park (safety score 99/100, 7.2 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year). The least safe is Hamilton Central (0/100, 2,742.5 per 1,000). 52 of 237 ranked Waikato suburbs score 70 or higher.
Rangatira Park, with a safety score of 99/100. The next safest are Hautapu Rural, Cooks Beach-Ferry Landing, Kinloch.
Hamilton Central (2,742.5 per 1,000), Kirikiriroa (1,554.7 per 1,000), Frankton Junction (1,035.3 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 258 suburbs, safest first.
