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Friday, August 15, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 72
The biggest news coming from the latest census results show that Hindi is now the fourth most common language in New Zealand, after English, Maori, and Samoan.
Two-thirds of the country's Asians live in Auckland, where almost one in every four Aucklanders (23.1 per cent) is Asian, up from 18.9 per cent in 2006.
Asians are also significant minorities in Wellington (10.5 per cent) and in Canterbury and the Waikato (both 6.9 per cent).
“As well as being older, the New Zealand population is also now more diverse, with an increasing Asian population, in particular,” Ms MacPherson said.
“The New Zealand population is aging, with the latest census results showing the median age of the population is 38 years, just over two years older than at the last census seven years ago,” Government Statistician Liz MacPherson said.
Although the overall population was higher in 2013, at 4,242,048 people (up 214,101), there were fewer children (under 15 years) than in 2006. Meanwhile, the number of people aged 50–69 years showed a large increase.
One in eight Kiwis (11.9 per cent) is now Asian, up from 9.2 per cent seven years ago. Following the end of official "white New Zealand" policy, which kept Asians under 1 per cent of the population throughout the period of European colonization, in the 1980s, a dramatic influx from Asia started.
The 2013 Census results show that the total number of dwellings (occupied and unoccupied) increased by just over 118,000 since 2006, to reach over 1.7 million. Nearly 30 percent of this increase was in the Auckland region.
While there are more dwellings, a lower proportion of households own their homes. “The rate of home ownership fell to just under 65 percent at the 2013 Census, compared with almost 67 percent at the 2006 Census,” Ms MacPherson said.
The number of unoccupied dwellings increased sharply since 2006, up more than 26,000 (16.4 percent). “Almost 40 percent of this increase was in Canterbury, probably because of people leaving their dwellings after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes,” Ms MacPherson said
The biggest news coming from the latest census results show that Hindi is now the fourth most common language in New Zealand, after English, Maori, and Samoan. Two-thirds of the country's Asians live in Auckland, where almost one in every four Aucklanders (23.1 per cent) is Asian, up from 18.9...
The biggest news coming from the latest census results show that Hindi is now the fourth most common language in New Zealand, after English, Maori, and Samoan.
Two-thirds of the country's Asians live in Auckland, where almost one in every four Aucklanders (23.1 per cent) is Asian, up from 18.9 per cent in 2006.
Asians are also significant minorities in Wellington (10.5 per cent) and in Canterbury and the Waikato (both 6.9 per cent).
“As well as being older, the New Zealand population is also now more diverse, with an increasing Asian population, in particular,” Ms MacPherson said.
“The New Zealand population is aging, with the latest census results showing the median age of the population is 38 years, just over two years older than at the last census seven years ago,” Government Statistician Liz MacPherson said.
Although the overall population was higher in 2013, at 4,242,048 people (up 214,101), there were fewer children (under 15 years) than in 2006. Meanwhile, the number of people aged 50–69 years showed a large increase.
One in eight Kiwis (11.9 per cent) is now Asian, up from 9.2 per cent seven years ago. Following the end of official "white New Zealand" policy, which kept Asians under 1 per cent of the population throughout the period of European colonization, in the 1980s, a dramatic influx from Asia started.
The 2013 Census results show that the total number of dwellings (occupied and unoccupied) increased by just over 118,000 since 2006, to reach over 1.7 million. Nearly 30 percent of this increase was in the Auckland region.
While there are more dwellings, a lower proportion of households own their homes. “The rate of home ownership fell to just under 65 percent at the 2013 Census, compared with almost 67 percent at the 2006 Census,” Ms MacPherson said.
The number of unoccupied dwellings increased sharply since 2006, up more than 26,000 (16.4 percent). “Almost 40 percent of this increase was in Canterbury, probably because of people leaving their dwellings after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes,” Ms MacPherson said
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