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

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