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Home ownership by ethnic group, 2013

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These charts show the strong contrast between the relatively high percentage of people of European ethnicity aged 15 and over who owned their homes, as compared with Asian, Māori and especially Pacific peoples.

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Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Source: Statistics New Zealand, 2013 Census

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David Pearson, Ethnic inequalities – Housing, health and justice, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/graph/29607/home-ownership-by-ethnic-group-2013 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by David Pearson, published 24 February 2011.