2001 Census Snapshot 8 (Electoral District Characteristics) - Media Release
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Electoral District Characteristics
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General information
The Representation Commission has recently announced the electoral district boundaries that will be used at the 2002 General Election. At the next General Election there will be 69 electoral districts: 62 General electoral districts and seven Mäori electoral districts. This snapshot provides information on some of the characteristics of the people who usually live in the new electoral districts. The data for General electoral districts is for the census usually resident population count. The data for Mäori electoral districts is for the census usually resident population count of Mäori descent. The data provided in this snapshot is not provided on electoral populations.
Details on how electoral populations are determined can be found at:
http://www.elections.org.nz/esyst/boundaries_drawn.html.
Maps showing the new electoral district boundaries can be found at:
http://www.elections.org.nz/electorates/index.html
General electoral districts
1. Age and sex profile
73 percent of usual residents in General electoral districts were of voting age (ie 18 years and over).
Wellington and Auckland Central General electoral districts had the highest ratio of voting age to non-voting age people (83 percent were 18 years and over), while Mangere had the lowest ratio (64 percent).
The 10 Electoral Districts with the Highest Proportion of
Census Usually Resident Population
Aged 18 Years and Over
Those General electoral districts with the highest median age for the voting population were Otaki (52 years) and Coromandel (51 years), while the districts with the lowest median voting age were Wellington Central (35 years), Dunedin North, Auckland Central and Mt Albert (each 37 years).
Manurewa and Mangere General electoral districts had the highest proportions of children under 5 years of age (10 percent each).
Out of all the General electoral districts, Otaki had the highest proportion of people aged 65 years and over (21 percent), followed by Tauranga (18 percent) and Coromandel (18 percent).
52 percent of voting age people in General electoral districts were women while the remaining 48 percent were men.
The highest proportion of women aged 18 years and over (54 percent) can be found in the urban electoral districts of Dunedin South, Ilam, North Shore, Tamaki and Tauranga.
The highest proportion of male voters (51 percent) can be found in rural electoral districts of Rakaia and Clutha-Southland.
2. Ethnic distribution
General electoral districts in the Auckland Region had the greatest ethnic diversity.
Mangere (29 percent), Manukau East (42 percent), Manurewa (50 percent), Maungakiekie (53 percent), Mt Albert (61 percent) and Mt Roskill (56 percent) had the lowest proportions of usual residents of European ethnicity.
There were five General electoral districts with more than 10,000 identifying with the Pacific peoples ethnic group: Maungakiekie, Mana, Manurewa, Manukau East and Mangere. Only one of these districts (Mana) is outside the Auckland Region. Mangere has the greatest number of Pacific peoples (32,148 people or 52 percent of the electoral district).
Six General electoral districts had more than 10,000 people of Asian ethnicities: Manukau East, Maungakiekie, Mt Albert, Mt Roskill, New Lynn and Pakuranga. Mt Roskill had the greatest number of people in the Asian ethnic group (13,983 people or 26 percent of the electoral district).
People identifying with the Mäori ethnic group were more likely to be found in those General electoral districts outside the Auckland region. The six General electoral districts with more than 15,000 people who identified with the Mäori ethnic group are: Tukituki, Manurewa, Taupo, Northland, Rotorua and East Coast. East Coast had the greatest number of people of Mäori ethnicity (35,955 people or 46 percent of the electoral district).
General electoral districts in the South Island had the highest proportion of people in the European ethnic groups. 96 percent of the people in Aoraki, Otago and Rakaia were of European ethnicity.
Ethnicity for Selected Electoral Districts
(total responses)
3. Income
The annual median income for all New Zealand adults (aged 15 years and over) was $18,500 in the year to March 2001. Two General electoral districts matched the national figure: Rangitikei and Mt Roskill.
In three General electoral districts the median was in excess of $25,000 per annum: Ohariu-Belmont ($29,200), Epsom ($28,800), and Wellington Central ($28,600).
Wellington Central and Ohariu-Belmont also had the highest proportion of usual residents who received income from wages and salaries in the 12 months prior to the 2001 Census (73 percent and 69 percent respectively).
Four General electoral districts had a median annual income below $15,000: East Coast ($14,900), West Coast-Tasman ($14,800), Northland ($14,500) and Dunedin North ($12,900).
East Coast (11 percent), Northland (10 percent) and Dunedin North (10 percent) had high proportions of adults in receipt of the Community Wage-Jobseeker benefit in the 12 months prior to the census, while Dunedin North also had a high proportion of adults in receipt of a Student Allowance (12 percent).
The two General electoral districts which had the highest proportion of adults in receipt of income from self employment (28 percent) were Clutha-Southland and Taranaki-King Country. The district with the lowest proportion was Mangere (7 percent).
4. Work and employment
62 percent of adults were employed in the week preceding the census. However, this varied between a high of 72 percent in the Ohariu-Belmont and Wellington Central General electoral districts, and a low of 51 percent in the Otaki General electoral district (where there were more people in the 65 years and over age group).
Eight highest employment rates for General electoral districts
General electoral district | Percent |
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| 72 |
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| 72 |
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| 70 |
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| 69 |
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| 69 |
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| 68 |
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| 68 |
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| 68 |
Unemployment rates were highest in the General electoral districts of Mangere (14 percent), Manurewa (12 percent), Manukau East (11 percent), Northland (11 percent), East Coast (11 percent) and Dunedin North (11 percent).
Mäori electoral districts
1. Age and sex profile
The age profile for those of Mäori descent is younger than for the total usually resident population with just 57 percent of voting age (ie 18 years and over).
Tamaki Makaurau had the highest ratio of voting age to non-voting age people among the Mäori electoral districts (60 percent of the electoral district are 18 years and over), while Te Tai Hauauru had the lowest ratio (55 percent).
Mäori Electoral Districts by Proportion of
Census Usually Resident Population
of Mäori Descent Aged 18 Years and Over
The highest median age for the voting population in the Mäori electoral districts was found in Waiariki and Ikaroa-Rawhiti (38 years), while Tamaki Makaurau and Te Tai Tonga had the lowest median voting age (each 35 years).
13 percent of those in Mäori electoral districts were under 5 years of age.
Four Mäori electoral districts were equal for the highest proportion of people of Mäori descent aged 65 years and over: Ikaroa-Rawhiti, Waiariki, Te Tai Tokerau and Te Tai Hauauru (4 percent each).
In Mäori electoral districts, 53 percent of voting age people of Mäori descent were women while the remaining 47 percent were men. There was little variation in this ratio across the seven Mäori electoral districts.
2. Income
The Auckland Mäori electoral district of Tamaki Makaurau had the highest annual median income of all adults of Mäori descent ($19,700). Waiariki had the lowest annual median income ($14,000) closely followed by Ikaroa-Rawhiti ($14,300), Te Tai Hauauru ($14,700), and Tainui ($14,800).
Te Tai Tonga had the highest proportion among the Mäori electoral districts of people who earned income from wages and salaries in the 12 months prior to the census (67 percent), while Waiariki had the lowest proportion (56 percent).
There was little difference in the proportions in receipt of the Community Wage-Jobseeker benefit across Mäori electoral districts. Tamaki Makaurau (11 percent) and Te Tai Tokerau (12 percent) had the lowest proportions, while Ikaroa-Rawhiti (15 percent), Te Tai Hauauru (15 percent), and Waiariki (15 percent) had the highest proportions.
Among the Mäori electoral districts, there were two districts where 11 percent of adults received income from self employment: Te Tai Tokerau and Te Tai Tonga, while Ikaroa-Rawhiti had the lowest proportion (7 percent).
3. Work and employment
In the Mäori electoral districts, the highest proportion of adults of Mäori descent employed in the week preceding the census was in the South Island district of Te Tai Tonga (65 percent) and lowest was in Waiariki (55 percent).
Employment rates for Mäori electoral districts
Mäori Electoral District | Percent |
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| 65 |
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| 61 |
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| 58 |
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| 58 |
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| 57 |
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| 57 |
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| 55 |
Waiariki had the highest unemployment rate of all the Mäori electoral areas (18 percent), while Te Tai Tonga had the lowest unemployment rate (11 percent).
More information
These results come from the 2001 Census of Population and Dwellings conducted by Statistics New Zealand.
For further detailed information on this subject, contact the people named below.
This release and other 2001 Census releases, along with additional information, are available free on the Statistics New Zealand website www.stats.govt.nz under "Census 2001". You are welcome to reproduce and publish this information provided you acknowledge Statistics New Zealand as the source.
The counts for this 2001 Census Snapshot are taken from tables prepared for the Electoral Profile topic-based series report to be published in mid-June 2002. The tables used for this snapshot can be found at www.stats.govt.nz/census.
To discuss the availability of further information from the 2001 Census or other collections, contact our Information Centre by telephoning:
Auckland 09 357 2100
Wellington 04 495 4600
Christchurch 03 374 8700
or emailing info@stats.govt.nz.
The ninth 2001 Census Snapshot - Older People will be published on 29 May 2002.
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Brian Pink
Government StatisticianEND
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Denise McGregor
Christchurch 03 374 8700
or Fiona Smillie
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