Home and community injury statistics
Find statistics on our claims relating to injuries at home and falls.
- Definition of injuries at home
- 2022 injury costs around the home
- 2022 new and active claims around the home
- Home-related injury claims and costs by year - 2015 to 2023 (year to date)
- New home-related injury claims by region - 2021 to 2023 (year to date)
- New claims for injuries at home in 2023 (year to date) by type of injury
- New claims for injuries at home by age - 2021 to 2023 (year to date)
- Injuries from falls
- More information
- Caveats to this data
Injuries around the home are determined by the location being specified as 'home'. These injuries can include:
- DIY
- gardening
- ladders
- animals
- steps and stairs
- lifting/carrying/straining
- burns
- poisonings.
Sometimes claims can meet the criteria for being at home and a fall. This means a claim may be counted in more than one category.
2023 injury costs
$1,970,624,632
The costs of all active claims around the home in 2023
New claims
989,003
in 2023
Active claims
1,141,258
in 2023
Home-related injury claims and costs by year
| Year | New claims | Active claims | Cost of active claims |
| 2015 | 879,219 | 955,176 | $863,685,903 |
| 2016 | 941,119 | 1,017,710 | $931,854,724 |
| 2017 | 948,164 | 1,034,782 | $1,008,884,275 |
| 2018 | 983,454 | 1,072,513 | $1,134,716,762 |
| 2019 | 1,001,707 | 1,112,627 | $1,257,316,006 |
| 2020 | 1,006,549 | 1,116,287 | $1,404,161,759 |
| 2021 | 998,251 | 1,135,745 | $1,512,881,781 |
| 2022 | 953,668 | 1,098,669 | $1,748,335,107 |
| 2023 | 989,003 | 1,141,258 | $1,970,624,632 |
Injuries from falls
People who are 65 years and over are more likely to experience a fall.
Find statistics on injury claims from a fall
More information
Find out about the work we're involved in to prevent injuries in the home and community:
- A calendar year is 1 January to 31 December.
- Accredited employer claims have been excluded.
- 'New claims' have been counted by the date that ACC registered a claim. This can be immediately after the injury occurred or at any later stage.
- 'Active claims' are claims that generated a payment in the relevant calendar years. These claims were not necessarily registered, or had the accident occur, in the same calendar year.
- Costs provided are exclusive of GST.
- Costs are based on payment date. Payment date may be different to the date of service.
- Costs do not include Public Health Acute Services (PHAS) payments. Treatment for covered claims in public hospitals is provided by an annual service agreement between ACC and the Ministry of Health, and is funded by bulk payments from ACC to the Crown.
- The calendar year and month in which the service was paid may differ to the calendar year and month in which the service was provided.
- A claim can cover multiple calendar years. A claim which lasts longer than one year is counted as 'active' once for each calendar year covered. For example, a claim which lasted from 2020 to 2022 would be counted a total of three times, once for each calendar year.
- Diagnosis is based on the client's primary injury. Claims may have multiple injuries; however, these secondary injuries will not show within this data extract.
- Age is based on the client's age at claim registration and may differ to their age at the time of an accident.
- Location is based on where an accident took place and may differ to where a client was residing at the time.
- Data was extracted at a point in time and may differ if re-run later.
We have been made aware that there is an issue with some ACC data for March 2022. We are not aware of the full extent of this issue, and claim counts and costs are subject to change.