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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).
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 ]
Urban area provisional New Zealand resident population, June 2024 [2] Toowoomba Australia: 140,303 Significant Urban Area, June 2021 [1] Papeete French Polynesia: 136,771 Urban area. National census, August 2017 [5] Dunedin New Zealand: 133,300 Urban area provisional New Zealand resident population, June 2024 [2] |- Darwin Australia: 132,921
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:
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 stated.
For New Zealand, metropolitan areas are defined as per the Functional Urban Area (FUA) classification [1] and population statistics are sourced from the Statistics New Zealand population estimates and projections.
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]
An urban area can be defined by one or more of the following: administrative criteria or political boundaries (e.g., area within the jurisdiction of a municipality or town committee), a threshold population size (where the minimum for an urban settlement is typically in the region of 2,000 people, although this varies globally between 200 and ...