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The only region that lost people was the west coast of the South Island, which lost 700 people.
Digging deeper into territorial authorities, (excluding Auckland), the data shows that the highest growth took place in Queenstown-Lakes (7.1 percent per year), Selwyn (6), Central Otago (3.7). The biggest loss was in the West Coast Buller district, down 1.5 percent annually.
In Auckland, the fastest growth was in Papakura (up 4.7 percent annually), followed by Rodney (3.7), Upper Harbor (3.2), Manurewa (2.9) and Hibiscus and Bays ( 2.8).
No area of Auckland’s local council saw its population decline.
The total population is now 5,084,300, and it is believed to have passed the 5 million mark in September last year.
“Updated estimates confirm that New Zealand’s population growth has been relatively high, averaging 1.9 percent per year in the 7 years ending June 2020,” Theyers said. “Growth in the previous 20 years averaged 1.1 percent annually.”
Two-thirds of the growth came from migration, averaging 56,000 a year.
