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Christchurch City covers a land area of 1,415.15 km 2 (546.39 sq mi) [179] and had an estimated population of 415,100 as of June 2024, [5] 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 .
While slow at first, growth in the town began to accelerate towards the end of the 1850s, with a period of rapid growth between 1857 and 1864. [59] Christchurch became the first city in New Zealand by royal charter on 31 July 1856, and Henry Harper was consecrated by the archbishop of Canterbury as the local Anglican bishop. He arrived in ...
June 2024 rank Name Region June 2024 estimate [1] Census population [2] Growth 2023 2018 2023 to June 2024 2018 to 2023 1: Auckland: Auckland: 1,531,400 1,402,275
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. [35] Approximately 14 percent of the population live in four different categories of rural areas as defined by Statistics New Zealand. About 18 ...
Christchurch Central City or Christchurch City Centre is the ... Comparing extrapolated historic growth in resident population with required growth to reach 30,000 ...
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).
Around a quarter of Canterbury's overseas-born population at the 2013 Census had been living in New Zealand for less than five years, and 11 percent had been living in New Zealand for less than two years (i.e. they moved to New Zealand after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake).
The number shown is the average annual growth rate for the period. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship—except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of the country of origin ...