Household composition

• One-family households make up 68.3 percent of all households in Canterbury Region. For New Zealand as a whole, one-family households make up 68.3 percent of all households.
• In Canterbury Region, there are 49,077 one-person households making up 24.4 percent of all households. In New Zealand, one-person households make up 23.5 percent of all households.
• The average household size in Canterbury Region is 2.5 people, compared with an average of 2.7 people for all of New Zealand.

Household composition
Canterbury Region and New Zealand
2013 Census

Note: All figures are for households in occupied private dwellings.

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.