Kaiwaka by the numbers ....

2013 Census Information

- figures are courtesy of Statistics New Zealand
- statistics refer to Kaiwaka as relating to the town, the greater Kaiwaka population are included by Statistics New Zealand as being part of other locations.


579 people are located within Kaiwaka, evenly split between Males and Females.  The population has increased 7.8% on the census figures of 2006.

The median age of our population is 36.8 years.  22.8% of the population are under 15 years, 42 are under 5, with 90 between 5-15 years.  12.4% of our population are aged over 65 years.  A quarter of our people (25.4%) live alone.

If it takes a village to raise a child then our youngest residents should be central to our community.  Almost 20% of families in Kaiwaka are heading by one parent, with almost 38% of families are made up of couples with children.

Ethnicity within the Kaiwaka township is mainly European (72.9%) and Maori (34.6%).  13.9% of our population were born overseas and have made their way to our township to live.

Almost half of our population (46.4%) over 15 earn less than $20,000 per year.  This is mainly due to the high number of people (40.1%) within those over 15 in our community who receive most of their income from government sources. 20.3% of our working community are self employed.  

What is encouraging is that of the over 15 population 54.7% do some type of volunteer work or assisting with care of someone not of their own household each week.  Across Northland the percentage of volunteering work is 41.5%.  

So statistically Kaiwaka is a very caring community.