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Household types by ethnicity, 2013

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This graph shows the different way households were composed by ethnicity in 2013. Fewer European households were made up of one-family households than other major ethnic groups, but many more of them were one-person households. Pacific households were more likely to be made up of two or more families than other ethnicities.

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Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Source: Statistics New Zealand: Ethnicity of household data, 2013

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Rosemary Du Plessis and Candice Diggelmann, Diverse families – Extended family and sole-parent households, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/graph/31594/household-types-by-ethnicity-2013 (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Rosemary Du Plessis and Candice Diggelmann, published 30 May 2011.