West Coast's safest suburb is Dobson (safety score 98/100, 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year). The least safe is Greymouth Central (2/100, 264.6 per 1,000). 10 of 26 ranked West Coast suburbs score 70 or higher.
Town centres and retail hubs rank low because theft is recorded where it happens, not where offenders live.
West Coast's safest suburb is Dobson (safety score 98/100, 11 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year). The least safe is Greymouth Central (2/100, 264.6 per 1,000). 10 of 26 ranked West Coast suburbs score 70 or higher.
Dobson, with a safety score of 98/100. The next safest are Westport Rural, Rutherglen-Camerons, Barrytown.
Greymouth Central (264.6 per 1,000), Westport North (79.4 per 1,000), Hokitika Valley-Otira (29.7 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 33 suburbs, safest first.
