Neighbourhood Deprivation

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Neighbourhood Deprivation

NZDep2006 is a small-area-based relative deprivation index based on nine socioeconomic variables from the 2006 Census. NZDep2006 scores are usually categorised into tenths (deciles), numbered from 1 (least deprived) to 10 (most deprived). NZDep2006 describes the deprivation experienced by groups of people in small areas and describes the general socio-economic deprivation of an area. It does not describe the deprivation of an individual.
Table 5: Māori and non-Māori populations, by neighbourhood deprivation decile (NZDep 2006)

How to interpret results - tables

NZDep2006 Decile	Māori		non-Māori
1 (least deprived)	19,215	3%	386,277	12%
2	24,603	4%	374,643	11%
3	29,361	5%	367,875	11%
4	33,678	6%	355,188	11%
5	40,191	7%	343,464	10%
6	50,184	9%	333,948	10%
7	58,908	10%	319,884	10%
8	73,692	13%	300,948	9%
9	98,838	17%	278,652	8%
10 (most deprived)	136,452	24%	229,626	7%
Unknown¹	213	0%	4329	0%
Total²	565,326	100%	3,294,834	100%

Source: Statistics New Zealand

Notes:

The population for whom an NZDep2006 score was not ascertained.
Due to rounding, individual figures in this table do not add to give the stated totals.

Figure 4: Neighbourhood deprivation distribution (NZDep 2006), Māori and non-Māori, 2006

How to interpret results - figures

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Text description: This graph shows that higher proportions of Māori live in areas with the most deprived NZDep2006 scores. In 2006, 24 percent of Māori lived in decile 10 areas (compared to with 7 percent of non-Māori), while only 3 percent of Māori lived in decile 1 areas (compared with 12 percent of non-Māori).

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