Changing Demographics

Auckland is New Zealand's most populous city. In the 2013 census, 1,415,550 persons
declared themselves as residents of the Auckland region an increase of 8% since the 2006
census.
As of June 2016, the population of New Zealand is estimated at 4.69 million and is
increasing at a rate of approximately 2.1% per year.[233] New Zealand is a predominantly
urban country, with 73.0% of the population living in the seventeen main urban areas (i.e.
population 30,000 or greater) and 53.7% living in the four largest cities
of Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, and Hamilton.[234] New Zealand cities generally rank
highly on international livability measures. For instance, in 2010 Auckland was ranked the
world's fourth most liveable city and Wellington the twelfth by the Mercer Quality of Life
Survey.[235]
Life expectancy for New Zealanders in 2012 was 84 years for females, and 80.2 years for
males.[236] Life expectancy at birth is forecast to increase from 80 years to 85 years in 2050
and infant mortality is expected to decline.[237] New Zealand's fertility rate of 2.1 is relatively
high for a developed country, and natural births account for a significant proportion
of population growth. Consequently, the country has a young population compared to most
industrialised nations, with 20% of New Zealanders being 14 years old or younger.[133] By
2050 the population is forecast to reach 5.3 million, the median age to rise from 36 years to
43 years and the percentage of people 60 years of age and older to rise from 18% to 29%.
[237]
In 2008, the leading cause of premature death was cancer, at 29.8%, followed
by ischaemic heart disease, 19.7%, and then cerebrovascular disease, 9.2%.[238]

Population and dwelling

At the 2013 New Zealand Census of Population and Dwellings:
The usually resident population count for Auckland was 1,415,550, an increase of 8.5 per
cent (110,589 residents) between the 2006 and 2013 Censuses.

Around one in ten (10.7%) Auckland residents identified as Mori.

Almost a quarter (23.1%) of Aucklands usually resident population identified with an Asian
ethnicity, a considerably higher proportion than found in New Zealand as a whole (11.8%).

The proportion of usual residents who were born overseas was 39.1 per cent, higher than
the national proportion of 25.2 per cent.

The median age in Auckland was 35.1 years, up from 33.9 years in 2006.

Auckland experienced a 26.9 per cent increase in the number of usual residents who were
aged 65 years and over between 2006 and 2013, equating to an additional 34,608 older
people since 2006

There were 40,563 more females than males overall, and more females than males in
every age group aged over 20 years.
 Almost two thirds of adults in Auckland aged 15 years and over (650,610 people, or 61.5%
of adults) were employed, compared with 62.3 per cent across New Zealand.

The median personal income for adults in Auckland was $29,600 per annum and the
median household income was $76,500 per annum (the highest household median across
all regions in New Zealand).

The largest proportions of those employed in Auckland were employed in the professional,
scientific and technical services (11.4%), manufacturing (9.9%) and retail trade (9.7%)
sectors.

A total of 469,500 households and 472,044 occupied private dwellings were recorded in
Auckland.

One-family households (with or without children) were the most common type of household
in Auckland, making up 69.8 per cent of households, and almost one in five (19.0%) were
one-person households.

Almost a quarter (24.8%) of occupied dwellings in Auckland were attached dwellings i.e.,
two or more flats/ units/ townhouses/ apartments/ houses joined together, an increase of
11,115 (11.3%) since 2006.

Almost two thirds (61.5%) of households in private occupied dwellings owned the dwelling
they lived in, or held it in a family trust. The rate of home ownership had decreased from
63.8 per cent in 2006.

Total population
1,415,550 people usually live in Auckland. This is an increase of 110,592
people, or 8.5 percent, since the 2006 Census.

Its population ranks 1st in size out of the 67 districts in New Zealand.

Auckland has 33.4 percent of New Zealand's population.

Population of Auckland and New Zealand

2013 Census

Sex Auckland New Zealand

Male 687,495 2,064,015
Female 728,055 2,178,033
Total people 1,415,550 4,242,051

Mori population
142,767 Mori usually live in Auckland. This is an increase of 5,463 people, or 4.0
percent, since the 2006 Census.
 Its Mori population ranks 1st in size out of the 67 districts in New Zealand.

23.9 percent of New Zealand's Mori population usually live in Auckland.

Mori population of Auckland and New Zealand

2013 Census

Sex Auckland New Zealand

Male 68,097 288,639
Female 74,673 309,966
Total people 142,767 598,602

Number of dwellings counted

There are 473,451 occupied dwellings and 33,360 unoccupied dwellings in
Auckland.

For New Zealand as a whole, there are 1,570,695 occupied dwellings and
185,448 unoccupied dwellings.

There are 2,814 dwellings under construction in Auckland, and 9,756 under
construction in New Zealand.

Dwellings in Auckland and New Zealand

2013 Census

Occupancy status Auckland New Zealand

Occupied
Private dwelling 472,041 1,561,956
Non-private dwelling 1,407 8,739
Total occupied
dwellings 473,451 1,570,695
Unoccupied 33,360 185,448
Under construction 2,814 9,756
Total dwellings 509,625 1,765,896