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Kaingaroa Forest Rural Centre Community Profile

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Population | Age profile | Education | Ethnic groups | Income | Employment | Families | Households | Business

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Population

At the 2001 Census of Population and Dwellings:

• The census usually resident population count for Kaingaroa Forest¹ was 549, a change of -5.2 percent since 1996.
• In comparison, the population for New Zealand as a whole has changed by 3.3 percent since 1996.

Numbers of people counted

	Kaingaroa Forest	New Zealand
Males	321	1,823,007
Females	258	1,914,273
Total	549	3,737,277
Change since 1996 Census	-33	118,974

¹The area used for this profile is based on Statistics New Zealand's rural centre.

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Age profile

At the 2001 Census:

• 38.3 percent of people in Kaingaroa Forest were under the age of 15 years, compared with 22.7 percent for all of New Zealand.
• 2.7 percent of people in Kaingaroa Forest were aged 65 years and over compared with 12.1 percent for all of New Zealand.

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Education

At the 2001 Census:

• 14.0 percent of people aged 15 years and over in Kaingaroa Forest had a post-school qualification, compared with 32.2 percent for New Zealand as a whole.

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Ethnic groups (total responses)

At the 2001 Census:

• 31.6 percent of people in Kaingaroa Forest said they belong to the European ethnic group, compared with 80.1 percent for all of New Zealand.

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Income

At the 2001 Census:

• The median income of people in Kaingaroa Forest is $13,500, compared with $18,500 for all of New Zealand.

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Employment

At the 2001 Census:

• The unemployment rate in Kaingaroa Forest was 20.0 percent, compared with 7.5 percent for all of New Zealand.
• The most popular occupational group in Kaingaroa Forest was Labourers (30.2 percent). The most popular occupational group for New Zealand as a whole was Service and Sales Workers (14.8 percent).

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Families

At the 2001 Census:

• There were 132 families in Kaingaroa Forest.

Family type

	Kaingaroa Forest	New Zealand
Couples with child(ren)	43.2%	42.1%
Couples without children	15.9%	39.0%
One parent with child(ren)	40.9%	18.9%

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Households

At the 2001 Census:

• The average household size in Kaingaroa Forest was 3.3 people, compared with 2.7 for all of New Zealand.
• 70.8 percent of households in Kaingaroa Forest had access to a telephone, compared with 96.3 percent for all of New Zealand.
• 2.1 percent of households in Kaingaroa Forest had access to the internet, compared with 37.4 percent for all of New Zealand.
• 81.3 percent of households in Kaingaroa Forest had access to a motor vehicle, compared with 89.9 percent for the whole of New Zealand.

• There were 159 households in Kaingaroa Forest.
• For dwellings that were rented, the average weekly rent paid for permanent private dwellings in Kaingaroa Forest was $90, compared with $174 for New Zealand as a whole.
• 54.2 percent of dwellings in Kaingaroa Forest were owned with or without a mortgage, compared with 67.8 percent for all of New Zealand.

Information from data collected in the 2001 Household Expenditure Survey shows that:

• The total average annual spending for households in Kaingaroa Forest was $29,995 compared with $43,682 for the whole of New Zealand.

Average annual household spending for select groups

	Kaingaroa Forest	New Zealand
Food	$6,074	$7,004
Housing	$6,221	$10,159
Housing Operation	$4,675	$5,472
Transportation	$4,046	$7,358

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Business

In 2002:

• There were 16 business locations (geographic units) in Kaingaroa Forest compared with 309,749 for all of New Zealand.

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The information in this profile is based on the 2001 Census of Population and Dwellings, the 2001 Household Expenditure Survey and the New Zealand Business Demographic Statistics.

All population statistics are for the census usually resident population count and have been randomly rounded to base three to preserve confidentiality.

Percentages have been calculated against complete responses; that is, they exclude cases where no answers were provided and have been calculated on the rounded data so do not always total 100%.

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This page last modified on: 30 May 2003