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Kōrero: Hawke’s Bay region

Social deprivation

Hawke’s Bay has an image of prosperity based on its agriculture and horticulture, but alongside this are stories of hardship. Areas defined as socially and economically deprived are found throughout the region.

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Ministry of Health - Manatū Hauora

Reference: P. White and others, Atlas of socioeconomic deprivation in New Zealand: NZDep2006. Wellington: Ministry of Health, 2008

by Jinny Gunston

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Kerryn Pollock, Hawke’s Bay region – Society, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/zoomify/23946/social-deprivation (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 22 January 2010, updated 1 July 2015.