Estimated number of households in private occupied dwellings in New Zealand

A household consists of one person usually residing alone, or two or more people usually residing together in a private dwelling, therefore visitors are excluded. Households whose members are all away temporarily elsewhere in New Zealand and/or temporarily overseas are included.
Tenure of household refers to the nature of the occupancy of a private household in a dwelling at a given time. Tenure of household seeks to ascertain if the household rents or owns the dwelling and whether payment is made by the household for that right. It does not refer to the tenure of the land on which the dwelling is situated.
The tenure 'owner-occupied' includes dwellings owned by individuals or held in a family trust (from 2006).
The tenure 'provided free' includes dwellings provided free to households by individuals, private trusts, businesses, and government agencies.

The estimated number of households of a census year is equivalent to the census household count with adjustments for households temporarily absent within New Zealand, net census undercount, households temporarily overseas on census night, and change between census night and the date of the respective census year. Estimates of household by tenure are derived by applying tenure proportions to the household estimates.
The tenure proportions are based on census information on tenure of households in private occupied dwellings (excluding visitor-only dwellings).
From the March 2023 quarter, the 'owner-occupied' proportion applied to the dwelling estimate is reduced each quarter, while the 'rented' proportion is increased. 'Provided free' proportion is held constant at the 2023 Census proportion.
Estimates are 'as at Quarter end'.

At URL provided, select 'Population > Demography Dwelling and Household Estimates - DDE > Estimated Households in Private Occupied Dwellings, As At Quarter Ended (Qrtly-Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec)'. All variables were selected in order to create this dataset.

The Dwelling and Household estimates are used for many purposes including planning, policy formation, business decisions, and as 'bottom lines' in the calculation of market coverage rates.

The quarterly household estimates are calculated by Stats NZ by taking the household estimate from the previous quarter and adding building consents for the quarter (lagged six months), multiplied by a weighting factor.
The estimates have as a base the census counts from the 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2013, 2018, and 2023 Censuses.