Upper Hutt City

This section provides people and indicator data for Upper Hutt District.

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People data for Upper Hutt District
Ethnicity by age, proportion in the area and sex: Census 2006, Estimated population change, births, deaths and natural increase from 1996, Projected population change, Household composition

Indicator data for Upper Hutt District

Health: Life expectancy, Cigarette smoking

Knowledge and Skills: Participation in early childhood education, School leavers with higher qualifications, Educational attainment of the adult population

Paid Work: Workplace injury claims

Economic Standard of Living: Population with low incomes, Household crowding

Civil and Political Rights: Voter turnout - local authority elections, Representation of women in local government

Cultural Identity: Māori language speakers, Language retention

Physical Environment: Drinking water quality

Safety: Road casualties

Social Connectedness: Telephone and internet access in the home

People data for Upper Hutt District

Ethnicity by age, proportion in the area and sex: Census 2006

Ethnicity	European		Māori		Pacific		Asian		Other		Total
Age	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
0 - 14	7,146	22.0	1,812	34.9	633	38.4	363	23.9	93	35.2	8,496	22.1
15 - 24	4,026	12.4	963	18.5	324	19.6	309	20.3	45	17.0	5,067	13.2
25 - 44	8,763	27.0	1,491	28.7	411	24.9	474	31.2	90	34.1	10,692	27.8
45 - 64	8,094	24.9	795	15.3	225	13.6	291	19.1	36	13.6	9,345	24.3
65 - 74	2,292	7.1	99	1.9	39	2.4	51	3.4	3	1.1	2,514	6.5
75+	2,157	6.6	42	0.8	15	0.9	27	1.8	3	1.1	2,304	6.0
Total	32,490	100.0	5,199	100.0	1,650	100.0	1,521	100.0	264	100.0	38,415	100.0
Ethnic % in the area	86.8		13.9		4.4		4.1		0.7		109.9
Sex
Male	15,921	49.0	2,661	51.2	888	53.8	720	47.3	132	50.0	19,095	49.7
Female	16,566	51.0	2,541	48.9	762	46.2	801	52.7	135	51.1	19,320	50.3
		100.0		100.0		100.0		100.0		100.0		100.0

Estimated population change, births, deaths and natural increase from 1996

Year	Estimated resident population at June	Population change		Registered births December year	Registered deaths December year	Natural increase December year
Year	Estimated resident population at June	Number	%	Registered births December year	Registered deaths December year	Natural increase December year
1996	37,700	-	-	536	280	256
1997	37,800	100	0.3	521	284	237
1998	37,800	0	0.0	560	273	287
1999	37,700	-100	-0.3	495	292	203
2000	37,700	0	0.0	529	259	270
2001	37,700	0	0.0	540	284	256
2002	38,100	400	1.1	485	268	217
2003	38,500	400	1.0	514	311	203
2004	38,900	400	1.0	502	265	237
2005	39,200	300	0.8	508	239	269
2006	39,700	500	1.3	490	272	218
2007	40,000	300	0.8	569	263	306
2008	40,200	200	0.5	575	266	309

Projected population change

Variant	Population at 30 June						Change 2006 - 2031
Variant	2006	2011	2016	2021	2026	2031	Number	%
High		41,300	42,500	43,500	44,300	45,000	5,300	13.0
Medium	39,700	40,400	40,700	40,800	40,700	40,400	700	2.0
Low		39,500	38,900	38,100	37,100	35,900	-3,800	-10.0

Household composition

Household composition	1986		1991		1996		2001		2006
Household composition	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Couples with children	5,430	46.2	5,166	41.9	4,695	37.3	4,305	33.2	4,419	31.5
Couples without children	2,739	23.3	3,033	24.6	3,222	25.6	3,375	26.0	3,669	26.2
Multi-family	99	0.8	135	1.1	216	1.7	192	1.5	267	1.9
One parent family	1,047	8.9	1,284	10.4	1,401	11.1	1,599	12.3	1,752	12.5
One person	1,890	16.1	2,172	17.6	2,550	20.3	3,054	23.5	3,486	24.9
Other multi-person	537	4.6	534	4.3	495	3.9	459	3.5	426	3.0
Total	11,745	100.0	12,324	100.0	12,582	100.0	12,984	100.0	14,022	100.0

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Indicator data for Upper Hutt District

Health

Life expectancy

Life expectancy at birth indicates the total number of years a person could expect to live, based on the mortality rates of the population at each age in a given year or period.

	1995 - 1997		2000 - 2002		2005 - 2007
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Life expectancy at birth (years)	74.4	78.4	76.9	80.2	78.5	83.1

Cigarette smoking

The proportion (%) of the population in the area aged 15 years and over who currently smoke cigarettes.

The age-standardised prevalence (%) of cigarette smoking by sex

Year	Male		Female		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
1981	4,923	37.2	4,281	33.0	9,219	35.1
1996	3,408	25.8	3,339	25.5	6,753	25.7
2006	3,138	24.6	3,159	24.4	6,309	24.5

The age-specific prevalence (%) of cigarette smoking (not age-standardised)

Year	15 - 24		25 - 44		45 - 64		65+
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
1981	2,730	38.6	3,864	37.9	2,109	33.3	516	23.5
1996	1,533	28.4	3,201	30.1	1,596	22.5	423	11.7
2006	1,230	26.5	2,841	28.4	1,857	21.2	381	8.6

The age-standardised prevalence (%) of cigarette smoking by ethnicity 2006

Sex	European		Māori		Pacific		Asian		Other		Total
Sex	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Male	2,181	24.1	606	35.7	156	29.6	90	18.5	396	20.2	3,138	24.7
Female	2,337	23.9	711	43.4	138	29.1	39	6.1	333	19.4	3,159	24.4
Total	4,518	24.0	1,326	40.1	318	32.1	138	12.8	723	19.8	6,309	24.5

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Knowledge and Skills

Participation in early childhood education

The number of 3 and 4 year olds enrolled in early childhood education centres or home-based education programmes as a proportion of all 3 and 4 year olds, and the number and proportion of Year 1 students who indicated they have attended some form of early childhood education.

"Apparent" participation rate, 3 and 4 year olds (numbers can add to more than 100%)

Year	Participation rate %			Number enrolled
Year	3 year	4 year	Total	3 year	4 year	Total
2001	96	95	96	559	538	1,097
2002	90	97	94	499	563	1,062
2003	92	95	93	496	536	1,032
2004	108	99	103	593	544	1,137
2005	97	104	100	521	567	1,088
2006	100	98	99	531	530	1,061
2007	93	101	97	507	523	1,030
2008	93	97	95	466	528	994

Early childhood attendance by Year 1 students, by ethnic group

Year	European		Māori		Pacific		Asian		Other		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
2000	417	96.5	90	96.8	28	84.8	13	100.0	3	75.0	551	95.7
2001	389	95.8	93	94.9	21	87.5	15	93.8	4	80.0	522	95.1
2002	365	98.4	82	98.8	24	96.0	13	100.0	7	100.0	491	98.4
2003	389	97.3	118	97.5	23	100.0	15	100.0	5	100.0	550	97.5
2004	356	97.0	108	98.2	23	92.0	14	100.0	3	50.0	504	96.4
2005	362	95.8	100	97.1	18	94.7	13	100.0	9	90.0	503	96.0
2006	387	99.5	99	100.0	25	96.2	15	100.0	9	90.0	535	99.3
2007	343	99.1	97	97.0	28	93.3	24	88.9	6	100.0	498	97.8
2008	324	97.9	108	94.7	25	89.3	28	87.5	9	81.8	494	95.7

School leavers with higher qualifications

The proportion of school leavers who had attained a qualification at National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) Level 2 or above, and the proportion who leave with Bursary and above.

School leavers with higher qualifications, by sex

Year	NCEA Level 2 or higher				Bursary or higher
	Sex (%)		Total		Sex (%)		Total
	Male	Female	Number	%	Male	Female	Number	%
2005	63.4	56.8	386	61.2	31.8	31.5	200	31.7
2006	63.8	55.9	425	61.2	34.9	26.7	223	32.1
2007	75.2	60.6	430	70.3	43.8	31.3	242	39.5

School leavers with higher qualifications, by ethnicity

NCEA Level 2 or higher

Year	European		Māori		Pacific		Asian		Other		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
2005	311	65.6	33	37.1	10	47.6	24	75.0	8	53.3	386	61.2
2006	330	64.6	53	43.8	11	55.0	24	70.6	7	77.8	425	61.2
2007	325	73.7	55	52.4	19	65.5	20	90.9	11	73.3	430	70.3

Bursary or higher

Year	European		Māori		Pacific		Asian		Other		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
2005	167	35.2	11	12.4	2	9.5	18	56.3	2	13.3	200	31.7
2006	188	36.8	13	10.7	0	0.0	18	52.9	4	44.4	223	32.1
2007	193	43.8	23	21.9	6	20.7	16	72.7	4	26.7	242	39.5

Educational attainment of the adult population

The proportion of adults aged 25 - 64 years with an educational attainment of at least upper secondary school level.

Proportion (%) and number aged 25 - 64 with higher qualifications, by age and sex, 2006

Sex	25 - 44		45 - 64		25 - 64
Sex	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
At least upper secondary
Male	3,987	81.9	3,270	75.5	7,257	78.9
Female	4,425	86.1	2,994	68.9	7,419	78.2
Total	8,409	84.0	6,264	72.2	14,673	78.5
At least tertiary
Male	729	15.0	639	14.8	1,368	14.9
Female	930	18.1	546	12.6	1,476	15.6
Total	1,662	16.6	1,182	13.6	2,844	15.2

Proportion (%) and number aged 25 - 64 with higher qualifications, by ethnic group and year

Year	European		Māori		Pacific		Asian		Other		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
At least upper secondary
1986	9,693	63.3	507	44.8	102	44.2	126	60.9	6	66.7	10,305	61.7
1991	10,638	67.7	726	53.0	186	54.4	249	64.8	24	80.0	11,614	66.1
1996	10,545	65.8	1,008	54.2	207	44.5	288	56.1	39	76.5	11,529	63.7
2001	11,331	76.2	1,086	62.3	333	69.4	498	85.1	60	95.2	12,772	75.0
2006	12,951	79.8	1,377	66.7	390	70.7	591	83.5	96	86.5	14,673	78.5
At least tertiary
1986	1,117	7.3	18	1.6	6	2.6	39	18.8	3	33.3	1,164	7.0
1991	1,192	7.6	30	2.2	21	6.1	84	21.9	9	30.0	1,308	7.5
1996	1,296	8.1	51	2.7	12	2.6	123	24.0	18	35.3	1,456	8.0
2001	1,629	11.0	75	4.3	27	5.6	198	33.9	21	33.3	1,902	11.2
2006	2,466	15.2	159	7.7	48	8.7	249	35.2	30	27.0	2,844	15.2

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Paid Work

Workplace injury claims

The number of workplace accident insurance claims reported to the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), excluding those employees who received accident and emergency treatment only.

December year	Number of claims by sex			% of claims by sex
December year	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
2002	909	437	1,346	67.5	32.5
2003	1,063	481	1,544	68.8	31.2
2004	1,101	427	1,528	72.1	27.9
2005	1,096	430	1,526	71.8	28.2
2006	1,065	433	1,498	71.1	28.9
2007	971	371	1,342	72.4	27.6

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Economic Standard of Living

Population with low incomes

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

Population with low incomes, by ethnicity

Year	European		Māori		Pacific		Asian		Other		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
1986	2,907	10.6	414	15.6	90	21.0	48	13.4	0	0.0	3,375	11.2
1991	4,032	15.0	729	25.6	240	36.0	126	20.3	9	18.8	4,968	16.4
1996	4,524	16.6	852	24.1	282	30.8	318	34.6	21	25.9	5,481	18.0
2001	3,669	14.3	714	21.4	270	29.9	222	24.2	45	46.9	4,506	15.6
2006	3,465	12.6	732	18.9	210	18.8	267	22.9	42	25.0	4,305	13.7

Population with low incomes, by age

Year	0 - 14		15 - 24		25 - 44		45 - 64		65+		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
1986	1,014	13.3	354	6.7	618	6.8	477	8.2	912	39.5	3,375	11.2
1991	1,404	19.7	561	11.0	990	10.3	744	12.8	1,269	46.3	4,968	16.4
1996	1,665	22.7	606	14.3	1,191	12.8	780	12.2	1,239	38.9	5,481	18.0
2001	1,431	20.4	450	13.3	963	11.1	651	10.0	1,011	30.2	4,506	15.6
2006	1,191	16.5	384	10.1	798	9.1	660	8.4	1,269	33.7	4,305	13.7

Population with low incomes, by sex

Year	Male		Female
Year	Number	%	Number	%
1986	1,392	9.2	1,983	13.3
1991	2,124	14.0	2,844	18.7
1996	2,418	16.0	3,060	19.9
2001	1,944	13.5	2,562	17.6
2006	1,926	12.4	2,382	14.9

Household crowding

The proportion of the population living in crowded housing (ie requiring one or more additional bedrooms, as defined by the Canadian Crowding Index).

Household crowding, by ethnicity

Year	European		Māori		Pacific		Asian		Other		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
1986	2,505	8.1	813	24.6	171	29.5	105	24.0	3	10.0	3,489	10.0
1991	1,983	6.6	786	22.9	354	40.1	198	26.3	6	11.8	3,297	9.4
1996	1,713	5.7	848	20.1	310	26.1	237	22.3	13	14.1	2,794	8.1
2001	1,284	4.4	750	17.8	369	28.9	207	17.8	42	30.4	2,349	6.9
2006	1,200	3.9	780	16.6	372	25.2	249	17.5	78	31.7	2,349	6.5

Household crowding, by age

Year	0 - 9		10 - 14		15 - 24		25 - 44		45 - 64		65+		Total
Year	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
1986	651	11.5	468	13.4	1,092	17.4	861	8.2	369	5.7	45	1.9	3,489	10.0
1991	675	12.0	375	13.1	978	16.0	885	7.9	336	5.1	45	1.6	3,297	9.4
1996	720	12.6	284	10.8	711	13.6	783	7.4	259	3.6	37	1.1	2,794	8.1
2001	630	11.6	288	9.9	504	11.6	642	6.3	252	3.3	39	1.1	2,349	6.9
2006	585	11.0	300	10.1	543	11.5	591	5.9	285	3.2	51	1.2	2,349	6.5

Household crowding, by sex

Year	Male		Female
Year	Number	%	Number	%
1986	1,788	10.2	1,698	9.8
1991	1,674	9.5	1,623	9.2
1996	1,384	8.0	1,410	8.1
2001	1,185	7.0	1,161	6.7
2006	1,137	6.4	1,212	6.6

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Civil and Political Rights

Voter turnout - local authority elections

The proportion of all enrolled electors (both resident and ratepayer) who cast a vote in territorial authority elections.

Election year	1989	1992	1995	1998	2001	2004	2007
Voter turnout (%)	54.0	57.0	57.2	57.0	58.0	45.0	41.0

Representation of women in local government

The proportion of female council and mayoral candidates, and elected members or mayors, in local authority elections.

Election activity	2001				2004				2007
	Council		Mayor		Council		Mayor		Council		Mayor
	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
Women candidates	7	37.0	2	50.0	5	25.0	0	0.0	5	28.0	0	0.0
Women voted in	4	40.0	0	n/a	5	50.0	0	n/a	5	50.0	0	n/a

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Cultural Identity

Māori language speakers

The number of Māori who can hold a conversation about everyday things in Māori, as a proportion of the Māori population, and the total number of Māori speakers as a proportion of the total population.

Speakers of Māori		0 - 14		15 - 29		30 - 49		50 - 64		65+		Total
Speakers of Māori		Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
1996	Māori	237	14.5	297	20.9	282	22.7	102	41.5	21	25.9	942	20.3
1996	Total population	276	3.2	363	4.4	348	3.1	135	2.8	33	0.9	1,161	3.2
2001	Māori	228	13.8	270	20.7	267	20.8	114	34.5	45	44.1	930	19.9
2001	Total population	294	3.5	354	5.0	351	3.2	147	2.7	57	1.3	1,203	3.3
2006	Māori	252	13.9	261	19.7	291	20.4	153	31.3	57	40.4	1,017	19.6
	Total population	288	3.4	327	4.6	381	3.2	189	3.0	69	1.4	1,257	3.3

Language retention

The proportion of people who can speak the "first language" (excluding English) of their ethnic group, for ethnic groups (other than Māori) with an established resident population in New Zealand.

	Born in NZ		Overseas born		Total
	2001	2006	2001	2006	2001	2006
Language retention (%)	25.2	23.5	79.3	77.8	52.8	50.9

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Physical Environment

Drinking water quality (can be more than 100% and highly variable)

The proportion of the estimated resident population who receive their water from community water supplies whose drinking water complies with either the 2000 or 2005 Drinking-water standards for New Zealand relating to E. coli and Cryptosporidium.

Year	E. coli (%)	Cryptosporidium (%)
2001	92.0	91.8
2002	91.2	90.9
2003	90.2	90.0
2004	89.1	89.1
2005	89.4	88.4
2006/2007	86.9	86.6
2007/2008	87.1	86.2

Safety

Road casualties

The number of people injured or killed in motor vehicle crashes per 100,000 of the total population.

Year	Injuries		Deaths
Year	Number	Rate per 100,000	Rate per 100,000
2001	76	205.4	0.0
2002	66	174.6	0.0
2003	82	216.9	10.6
2004	52	137.2	5.3
2005	92	242.7	7.9
2006	80	210.5	10.5
2007	124	310.0	0.0
2008	97	241.3	7.5

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Social Connectedness

Telephone and internet access in the home

The proportion of the population with telephone and internet access in the home.

Telephone access (%)

Year	Ethnicity					Sex		Age					Total
Year	European	Māori	Pacific	Asian	Other	Male	Female	0 - 14	15 - 24	25 - 44	45 - 64	65+	Total
1996	98.2	90.4	84.9	97.2	93.3	96.6	97.5	96.1	95.8	97.0	98.3	98.8	97.0
2001	98.8	93.5	93.3	97.7	100.0	98.0	98.2	97.7	97.5	97.9	98.7	98.8	98.1
2006	99.3	96.7	96.3	99.4	98.8	98.7	99.1	98.8	98.5	98.6	99.2	99.4	98.9

Internet access (%)

Year	Ethnicity					Sex		Age					Total
Year	European	Māori	Pacific	Asian	Other	Male	Female	0 - 14	15 - 24	25 - 44	45 - 64	65+	Total
2001	50.3	34.1	30.4	64.1	44.4	50.7	47.1	53.6	52.3	52.5	51.6	19.0	48.9
2006	74.0	58.7	53.0	77.1	57.8	72.9	70.9	76.5	74.9	75.8	75.9	41.6	71.9

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