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Our Region

Some statistics about Southland (from Statistics New Zealand)

• 90,873 people live in the Southland.
• Southland has 2.3% of New Zealand's population.
• 78.6% of Southlanders identify as of European descent, 16.5% as New Zealander, 11.8% as Maori, 1.7% as Pacific people, 1.3% as Asian and 0.2% as another ethnicity.
• Southland’s 27% rural population is almost twice the national average of 14%.
• The median age (half are younger, and half older, than this age) is 38.0 years for people in Southland. For New Zealand as a whole, the median age is 35.9 years.
• 13.9% of people in Southland are aged 65 years and over, and 21.2% are aged under 15 years.
• The unemployment rate in Southland Region is 3.8%, compared with 5.1% for all of New Zealand.
• 32.2% of people aged 15 years and over in Southland have a post-school qualification.
• Couples with children make up 41.3% of all families in Southland.
• The average household size in Southland is 2.5 people, compared with an average of 2.7 people for all of New Zealand.
• 90% of farms in Southland are involved in livestock production, with the main farming types being sheep (45%), dairy cattle (16%), beef cattle (8%), sheep-beef (10%) and deer (7%).