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QuickStats About Papakura District



Number of people counted

Total population

  • 45,183 people usually live in Papakura District. This is an increase of 4,515 people, or 11.1 percent, since the 2001 Census.
  • Its population ranks 23rd in size out of the 73 districts in New Zealand.
  • Papakura District has 1.1 percent of New Zealand's population.

Population of Papakura District and New Zealand, 2006 Census
 
Region/City/DistrictNew Zealand
Male
  21,855  1,965,621
Female
  23,328  2,062,329
Total  45,183  4,027,947

Māori ethnic population

  • 11,376 Māori usually live in Papakura District, an increase of 1,920 people, or 20.3 percent, since the 2001 Census.
  • Its Māori population ranks 16th in size out of the 73 districts in New Zealand.
  • 2.0 percent of New Zealand's Māori population usually live in Papakura District. 

Māori Population of Papakura District and New Zealand, 2006 Census
 
Region/City/DistrictNew Zealand
Male
  5,469  274,860
Female
  5,910  290,469
Total  11,376  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 14,934 occupied dwellings and 795 unoccupied dwellings in Papakura District.
  • For New Zealand as a whole, there are 1,478,709 occupied dwellings and 159,273 unoccupied dwellings.
  • There are 96 dwellings under construction in Papakura District, compared with 13,560 under construction throughout New Zealand.

Dwellings in Papakura District and New Zealand, 2006 Census
Dwelling status
     
 
Region/City/DistrictNew Zealand
Occupied
      Private dwelling
  14,907  1,471,746
     Non-private dwelling
  27  6,963
     Total  14,934  1,478,709
Unoccupied
  795  159,273
Under construction
  96  13,560
Total  15,825  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.