The latest subnational family and household projections provide an indication of possible future changes in the number and composition of families and households.
Highlights of the latest release project that:
• All 16 of New Zealand's regions will have more couple-without-children families and one-person households in 2031 than in 2006.*
• There will be a continued decline in average household size for all regions and territorial authorities, between 2006 and 2031.
• The Auckland region will account for almost half (48 percent) of the national growth in the number of households by 2031.
*‘Couple-without-children’ include:
(a) couples who will never have children,Note that first projection, that all 16 regions will have more one-person households.....but we keep focusing our ministry on families, married couples, youth, children.
(b) couples who will have children in the future,
(c) couples whose children have left the parental home.
Photo, David Salafia
PS: This year is Census Year - in just a month's time. It's a date I was looking forward to, in many ways, when all the 2006 Census figures that were becoming increasingly unuseful would be replaced. And now my role here as Research and Resource Assistant is coming to an end....pooh! :)
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