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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 creates standards for statistical geographic areas that are the basis for determining population figures. 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).
As of June 2024, the urban population made up 84.3% of New Zealand's total population. The current standard for urban areas is the Statistical Standard for Geographic Areas 2018 (SSGA18), which replaced the New Zealand Standard Areas Classification 1992 (NZSAC92) in 2018. [2] There are four classes of urban area under SSGA18:
Largest cities or towns in New Zealand. Statistics New Zealand June 2024 estimate (SSGA18 boundaries) [1] Rank Name Region Pop. Rank Name Region
While most New Zealanders live in New Zealand, there is also a significant diaspora abroad, estimated as of 2001 at over 460,000 or 14 percent of the international total of New Zealand-born. Of these, 360,000, over three-quarters of the New Zealand-born population residing outside of New Zealand, live in Australia.
New Zealand: 215,200 Urban area provisional New Zealand resident population, June 2024 [2] Hobart Australia: 218,386 Significant Urban Area, June 2021 [1] Townsville Australia: 184,271 Significant Urban Area, June 2021 [1] Nouméa New Caledonia: 179,509 Metropolitan area. National census, August 2014 [5] Hamilton New Zealand: 178,500
This is a list of cities and towns in the South Island of New Zealand by the population of their urban area. The populations given in the table below are provisional New Zealand usually resident populations, June 2024 estimates, and refer to the urban area defined under the Statistical Standard for Geographic Areas 2018 (SSGA) unless otherwise ...
UNICEF defines city proper as, "the population living within the administrative boundaries of a city or controlled directly from the city by a single authority." A city proper is a locality defined according to legal or political boundaries and an administratively recognised urban status that is usually characterised by some form of local ...