Dargaville Community Profile

The Community Profile provides information about your local community.

Population

At the 2001 Census of Population and Dwellings:

• The census usually resident population count for Dargaville¹ was 4,530, a change of 1.2 percent since 1996.
• In comparison, the Kaipara District's population has changed by 0.5 percent and the population for New Zealand as a whole has changed by 3.3 percent since 1996.

¹The area used for this profile is based on Statistics New Zealand's area unit.

Age profile

At the 2001 Census:

• 24.4 percent of people in Dargaville were under the age of 15 years, compared with 24.9 percent in Kaipara District and 22.7 percent for all of New Zealand.
• 18.5 percent of people in Dargaville were aged 65 years and over compared with 13.2 percent of Kaipara District and 12.1 percent for all of New Zealand.

Education

At the 2001 Census:

• 21.5 percent of people aged 15 years and over in Dargaville had a post-school qualification, compared with 22.3 percent for Kaipara District and 32.2 percent for New Zealand as a whole.

Ethnic groups (total responses)

At the 2001 Census:

• 79.3 percent of people in Dargaville said they belong to the European ethnic group, compared with 86.0 percent for Kaipara District and 80.1 percent for all of New Zealand.

Income

At the 2001 Census:

• The median income of people in Dargaville is $14,400, compared with $15,800 for Kaipara District and $18,500 for all of New Zealand.

Employment

At the 2001 Census:

• The unemployment rate in Dargaville was 9.1 percent, compared with Kaipara District percent for 6.7 and 7.5 percent for all of New Zealand.
• The most popular occupational group in Dargaville was Service and Sales Workers (16.2 percent). The most popular occupational group in Kaipara District was Agriculture and Fishery Workers (33.3 percent) and for New Zealand as a whole was Service and Sales Workers (14.8 percent).

Families

At the 2001 Census:

• There were 1,125 families in Dargaville.

Households

At the 2001 Census:

• The average household size in Dargaville was 2.5 people, compared with 2.6 for Kaipara District and 2.7 for all of New Zealand.
• 94.7 percent of households in Dargaville had access to a telephone, compared with 94.8 percent for Kaipara District and 96.3 percent for all of New Zealand.
• 19.0 percent of households in Dargaville had access to the internet, compared with 24.8 percent for Kaipara District and 37.4 percent for all of New Zealand.
• 86.4 percent of households in Dargaville had access to a motor vehicle, compared with 92.0 percent for Kaipara District and 89.9 percent for the whole of New Zealand.

• There were 1,674 households in Dargaville.
• For dwellings that were rented, the average weekly rent paid for permanent private dwellings in Dargaville was $114, compared with $121 for Kaipara District and $174 for New Zealand as a whole.
• 68.4 percent of dwellings in Dargaville were owned with or without a mortgage, compared with 73.2 percent for Kaipara District and 67.8 percent for all of New Zealand.

Information from data collected in the 2001 Household Expenditure Survey shows that:

• The total average annual spending for households in Dargaville was $35,100 compared with $37,672 for households in Kaipara District and $43,682 for the whole of New Zealand.

Business

In 2001:

• There were 442 business locations (geographic units) in Dargaville compared with 1,384 in Kaipara District and 309,749 for all of New Zealand.

Population Patterns and Priorities in the Kaipara
KCI has approximately 12000 enrolled patients on its register. As at June 2003, sixty percent of the register has been batch geocoded.  KCI can accurately identify Maori, Pacific Islands and Other ethnicities and their deprivation quintile in sufficient proportions to identify key streets and towns where significant deprived population groups occur.
Of the 12000 enrolees approx 30000 are NZ Maori or 25 % of all ethnicities.

2. Areas of High Deprivation in the Kaipara

As the chart above shows, most Quintile 5 people on our register live in Dargaville, followed by Te Kopuru. Smaller clusters also live in or around Ruawai, Pouto, and Kaihu.

3. Maori Distribution on the KCI Register
This table of Kaipara Towns is sorted from the Grand Total most to least of all patients whose ethnicity is described NZ Maori. Note significant numbers in each town who are un-geocoded. Those in the MISSING TOWN FIELD row are likely to have actual addresses in or around any of the other listed towns.

4. Comparison of Maori and Quintile 5 Deprivation by the Main Towns
 

Maori and Quintile 5 people on our register live in a number of locations within the Kaipara, but significantly large groups live in Dargaville and Te Kopuru. Of these two groups, 48% of all Maori in Te Kopuru are quintile 5, and 28% of all Maori in Dargaville are quintile 5. These concentrations are compelling reasons for KCI to review how well services have been designed to accommodate these groups of people.

The information in this profile is based on the 2001 Census of Population and Dwellings, the 2001 Household Expenditure Survey and the New Zealand Business Demographic Statistics.

All population statistics are for the census usually resident population count and have been randomly rounded to base three to preserve confidentiality.

Percentages have been calculated against complete responses; that is, they exclude cases where no answers were provided and have been calculated on the rounded data so do not always total 100%.