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QuickStats About Timaru District



Number of people counted

Total population

  • 42,870 people usually live in Timaru District. This is an increase of 903 people, or 2.2 percent, since the 2001 Census.
  • Its population ranks 28th in size out of the 73 districts in New Zealand.
  • Timaru District has 1.1 percent of New Zealand's population.

Population of Timaru District and New Zealand, 2006 Census
 
Region/City/DistrictNew Zealand
Male
  20,814  1,965,618
Female
  22,056  2,062,329
Total  42,867  4,027,947

Māori ethnic population

  • 2,619 Māori usually live in Timaru District, an increase of 285 people, or 12.2 percent, since the 2001 Census.
  • Its Māori population ranks 53rd in size out of the 73 districts in New Zealand.
  • 0.5 percent of New Zealand's Māori population usually live in Timaru District. 

Māori Population of Timaru District and New Zealand, 2006 Census
 
Region/City/DistrictNew Zealand
Male
  1,275  274,860
Female
  1,341  290,469
Total  2,619  565,329

Note: The Māori ethnic population is the count for people of the Māori ethnic group. It includes those people who stated Māori as being either their sole ethnic group or one of several ethnic groups.

Number of dwellings counted

  • There are 17,688 occupied dwellings and 1,440 unoccupied dwellings in Timaru District.
  • For New Zealand as a whole, there are 1,478,709 occupied dwellings and 159,276 unoccupied dwellings.
  • There are 117 dwellings under construction in Timaru District, compared with 13,560 under construction throughout New Zealand.

Dwellings in Timaru District and New Zealand, 2006 Census
Dwelling status
     
 
Region/City/DistrictNew Zealand
Occupied
      Private dwelling
  17,601  1,471,746
     Non-private dwelling
  90  6,963
     Total  17,688  1,478,709
Unoccupied
  1,440  159,276
Under construction
  117  13,560
Total  19,245  1,651,542

Note: This data has been randomly rounded to protect confidentiality. Individual figures may not add up to totals, and values for the same data may vary in different text, tables and graphs.