Auckland's population is approximately 1.3 million, by far the largest city in New Zealand, and one third of the country's entire population.
Auckland is ethnically diverse, with 181 different ethnic groups, in marked contrast to other parts of the Auckland region and the country as a whole.
Unlike the rest of New Zealand, where the proportion of the population over the age of 65 years is growing, Auckland city continues to buck the trend with declining proportions in this age group. Instead the city maintains higher proportions of people in the working age groups.
Auckland city
Auckland city has:
- the largest population of any city in the country, approximately 10 percent of the entire population of New Zealand
- the largest increase in population, between 1991 and 2001, of any city in New Zealand
- 32 percent of the population of the Auckland region
- a lower percentage of Maori than in the Auckland region and New Zealand as a whole, but second highest actual numbers of Maori in the region
- a higher proportion of Asian population than the Auckland region and New Zealand as a whole
- a lower proportion of people under 15 years of age than the Auckland region and New Zealand as a whole
- a higher proportion of people earning higher incomes than in the Auckland region and New Zealand as a whole.
Auckland region
Auckland region has:
- over 30 percent of the population of New Zealand
- had a population increase of over 220,000 people, or 23 percent, since 1991
- the largest population of people from the Pacific Islands (13 percent) and Asia (13.8 percent) in New Zealand
- the largest overseas-born population, almost 1 in 3 (32.1 percent) compared with under 1 in 5 (19.5 percent ) for New Zealand as a whole
- the largest proportion of people aged 15 to 64 years – 67 percent compared with 65 percent nationally.
- the lowest proportion of people aged over 65 (10 percent) for any region in New Zealand
- the highest proportion of people who drove a private vehicle to work on census day (54.2 percent) in New Zealand.
This data is sourced from Statistics New Zealand 2001 Census of Population and Dwellings.
