Safety, air quality and noise in Bluff, Invercargill

Safety — higher is safer

Bluff scores 6.5 out of 10 for safety, where higher is safer.

Measured figure: 139.9 offences per 10,000 residents.

Safety uses 139.9 offences per 10,000 residents for the surrounding NZ Police area unit, from NZ Police recorded crime, 2025.

Clean air — higher is cleaner

Bluff scores 8.3 out of 10 for clean air, where higher is cleaner.

Measured figure: 6.7 micrograms per cubic metre PM2.5 annual mean.

Clean air uses 6.7 micrograms per cubic metre of PM2.5, an annual mean modelled at the area centroid from the Copernicus CAMS regional background surface. This figure is approximate: a regional background estimate rather than a local modelled surface.

This score is approximate.