Households

Household characteristics

New Zealand has about 1.4 million private households. While 37 percent are families with children, 25 percent are couple-only households and 23 percent are single-person households.

New Zealand’s median age has slowly increased and single-person households have become more common.

Distribution of private household composition

	2001		1996
Single-family households		Percent
Couple	25.1		25.0
Couple with children	27.3		30.6
Single parent with children	9.6		9.3
Other	7.1		6.4
One-person households	23.4		20.7
Other, such as multi-family households	7.5		8.0
	100.0		100.0

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