Well, 1000 sounds a lot, but as there is no mention of the severity of the crime, I guess you could say it's not all that bad. I would bet that a great number of those are Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, and are things like car theft (including broken window to steal contents) and other criminal damage to property.

The town we used to live in the UK had around that amount crimes reported daily, and was only a population of 200,000 people!