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New Zealand is a predominantly urban country, with 84.3 percent of the population living in an urban area. About 64.8 percent of the population live in the 20 main urban areas (population of 30,000 or more) and 43.8 percent live in the four largest cities of Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, and Hamilton.
This is a list of statistical areas in New Zealand, as defined by Statistics New Zealand in the statistical area 2 (SA2) and statistical area 3 (SA3) boundaries set out in the Statistical standard for geographic areas 2023. All SA2 areas are listed here, in non-italics.
This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1. The list also includes unrecognized but de facto independent countries. The figures in the table ...
Population density map for Auckland in the 2023 census. The eponymous city (urban area) of Auckland has a population of 1,531,400 as of June 2024, [2] making up 85.2% of the region's population. Other urban areas in the Auckland region include: Hibiscus Coast (67,800) Pukekohe (28,000) Waiuku (9,930) Waiheke West (8,020) Beachlands-Pine Harbour ...
The most famous of these census evaders is The Wizard of New Zealand, Ian Brackenbury Channell, who has avoided the census on numerous occasions. He spent the night of the 1981 census in a boat beyond New Zealand's 20 kilometres (12 mi) territorial limit in order to avoid enumeration in the country. He has also publicly burnt census forms.
Christchurch City covers a land area of 1,415.15 km 2 (546.39 sq mi) [178] and had an estimated population of 415,100 as of June 2024, [4] with a population density of 293 people per km 2. This is the second-most populous area administered by a single council in New Zealand, and the largest city in the South Island .
This article lists urban areas of New Zealand—as defined by Statistics New Zealand—ranked by population. Only the 150 largest urban areas are listed. Urban areas are defined by the Statistical Standard for Geographic Areas 2018 (SSGA18).
Statistics New Zealand announced in 2017 that the Statistical Standard for Geographic Areas 2018 (SSGA18) would replace the New Zealand Standard Areas Classification 1992 (NZSAC92). The change impacted Wellington most, by splitting it into four urban areas, being the Wellington city and Lower Hutt city "major urban areas" and Porirua and Upper ...