Injury Statistics

Whāra Tatauranga

There is a wide range of injury data available for the New Plymouth District.

New Plymouth Injury Safe Trust summarise as much data as possible in a convenient form every five years and call it the New Plymouth District Community Based Injury Prevention Needs Assessment. The purpose of the Needs Assessment is to identify patterns of injury in New Plymouth District and to inform future injury prevention priorities and action. The latest Needs Assessement was completed in September 2015 thanks to the generous sponsorship of TSB Community Trust.

Due to technological advances much of the data contained within the needs assessment documents can now be updated directly from source websites. The links to those websites are provided on this page.

In the Reports and Resources section on this page our Injury Prevention Needs Assessment and other injury data reports not directly published on other websites will be posted from time to time.

Take a look below at Statistics New Zealand's representation of why injury information is important.

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Related Projects

2016 International Safe Community Re-accreditation

New Plymouth District was proud to be first designated an International Safe Community in 2005. We became the 95th designated International Safe Community in the world and the third community in New Zealand to be accredited. We were also the first community in New Zealand to be accredited by the Certifying Centre of the Safe Communities Foundation New Zealand (SCFNZ).

Eleven years later, on 8 December 2016, we were re-designated an International Safe Community for the third time! A copy of our re-accreditation application which includes a detailed history of the safety work that NPiS and the community undertook during 2010-2016 is available by clicking here.