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QuickStats About Hawke's Bay Region



Number of people counted

Total population

  • 147,783 people usually live in Hawke's Bay Region. This is an increase of 4,833 people, or 3.4 percent, since the 2001 Census.
  • Its population ranks 9th in size out of the 16 regions in New Zealand.
  • Hawke's Bay Region has 3.7 percent of New Zealand's population.

Population of Hawke's Bay Region and New Zealand, 2006 Census
 
Region/City/DistrictNew Zealand
Male
  71,763  1,965,618
Female
  76,020  2,062,329
Total  147,783  4,027,947

Māori ethnic population

  • 33,555 Māori usually live in Hawke's Bay Region, an increase of 1,467 people, or 4.6 percent, since the 2001 Census.
  • Its Māori population ranks 8th in size out of the 16 regions in New Zealand.
  • 5.9 percent of New Zealand's Māori population usually live in Hawke's Bay Region. 

Māori Population of Hawke's Bay Region and New Zealand, 2006 Census
 
Region/City/DistrictNew Zealand
Male
  16,125  274,860
Female
  17,430  290,469
Total  33,558  565,326

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 55,527 occupied dwellings and 4,755 unoccupied dwellings in Hawke's Bay Region.
  • For New Zealand as a whole, there are 1,478,709 occupied dwellings and 159,276 unoccupied dwellings.
  • There are 480 dwellings under construction in Hawke's Bay Region, compared with 13,560 under construction throughout New Zealand.

Dwellings in Hawke's Bay Region and New Zealand, 2006 Census
Dwelling status
     
 
Region/City/DistrictNew Zealand
Occupied
      Private dwelling
  55,227  1,471,746
     Non-private dwelling
  303  6,963
     Total  55,527  1,478,709
Unoccupied
  4,755  159,276
Under construction
  480  13,560
Total  60,759  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.