Tuvaluan people in New Zealand

Tuvaluan - Housing

 
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Tenure

  • In 2001, 16 percent of Tuvaluan people aged 15 years and over stated that they owned or partly owned their own home – the lowest level among the seven largest Pacific ethnic groups. The comparable figures for the Pacific and New Zealand populations were 26 percent and 55 percent respectively.
  • Tuvaluan men (17 percent) were slightly more likely than Tuvaluan women (15 percent) to own the home in which they lived.

Rental housing

  • Seventy-nine percent of the Tuvaluan population lived in rental accommodation in 2001 – the highest proportion among the seven largest Pacific ethnic groups. (Conversely, the proportion of Tuvaluan people living in dwellings owned, with or without a mortgage, by a member of the household was 21 percent).
  • Among those Tuvaluan people living in rental accommodation in 2001, 40 percent were living in Housing New Zealand accommodation.
  • Of those Tuvaluan people living in rented accommodation in 2001, 33 percent were living in households paying less than $150 a week. By comparison, almost half (49 percent) of the Pacific population lived in households paying less than $150 a week. The equivalent proportion for the New Zealand population was 38 percent.
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