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New Zealand household count could reach 2.47 million by 2048, Stats NZ projects

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12 Nov 2026, 6:15 am IST1 min read

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New Zealand could have 2.47 million households by 2048, up from an estimated 1.90 million in 2023, according to projections Stats NZ released on November 11. The count includes people living alone. Its medium B scenario puts average household growth at 1.1% a year, above projected population growth of 0.9% a year.

In that scenario, the number of people living alone rises from 434,800 to 552,100. Average household size falls from 2.69 to 2.60 people.

Stats NZ uses the estimated population at June 30, 2023 as the starting point and publishes alternative scenarios to show how the figures could change under different population and living arrangement assumptions.

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Credit: This work is based on Stats NZ’s data which are licensed by Stats NZ for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

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