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Population with low incomes

Definition: The proportion of people living in households with real gross income less than 60 percent of the median household equivalised national gross income benchmarked at 2001.

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The proportion (%) of people living in households with incomes below 60% of the 2001 median

Region 1986 1991 1996 2001 2006
1 Northland 23.9 38.9 35.6 30.2 25.2
2 Auckland 15.0 22.1 20.4 18.2 15.6
3 Waikato 20.3 28.4 25.5 22.4 18.8
4 Bay of Plenty 20.0 32.1 27.7 24.7 21.1
5 Gisborne 24.1 35.4 33.3 30.1 24.7
6 Hawke’s Bay 20.8 30.9 29.1 24.6 20.4
7 Taranaki 19.1 28.8 25.7 23.9 19.7
8 Manawatu-Whanganui 21.3 30.3 29.2 25.6 22.6
9 Wellington 13.2 19.1 18.7 15.8 14.1
10 Tasman 25.7 33.3 28.4 24.0 20.3
11 Nelson 16.4 26.1 24.2 23.0 19.0
12 Marlborough 23.7 30.2 25.9 21.5 18.0
13 West Coast 25.0 36.2 32.8 30.6 24.9
14 Canterbury 19.7 27.7 24.1 21.2 18.2
15 Otago 21.2 30.0 27.7 23.9 20.7
16 Southland 20.3 29.0 25.5 22.0 19.4
New Zealand 18.3 26.6 24.3 21.2 18.1

Source: Statistics New Zealand