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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).
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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:
The schedule of cities in New Zealand was brought under central government control in 1867, [18] but continued to be sporadically applied. From 1886 the definition of a city was changed to any borough with a population of 20,000 or more. [19] This value was increased to 50,000 in 1989. [9] [20]
In 2018, over half (50.7 percent) of New Zealand's overseas-born population lived in the Auckland Region, including 70 percent of the country's Pacific Island-born population, 61.5 percent of its Asian-born population, and 52 percent of its Middle Eastern and African- born population. [51]
This is a list of the regions of New Zealand by Human Development Index as of 2024 with data for the year 2022. The three most populated regions of New Zealand have the highest HDI, although the position of other regions has been variable across recent releases of the index. [1]
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
The Auckland Region is New Zealand's most populous territorial authority and Auckland its most populous city. In the 2018 census, 1,571,718 persons declared themselves as residents of the region – an increase of 156,178 people or 11.0% since the 2013 census. The Auckland Region accounts for about one-third (33.4%) of New Zealand's population.