Census confirms fewer people own their homes
2:50PM Wednesday May 02, 2007
Figures from last year's census have confirmed that fewer people now own the home they live in and fewer households live in a detached building.
One in three households (33 per cent) did not own the house they lived in, according to the 2006 census, up from 32 per cent in 2001 and 29 per cent in 1996.
The figure for those who did own their own house -- 70 per cent -- is down from a peak of 74 per cent in the 1991 census, though Statistics New Zealand said comparisons were difficult because more homes are owned through family trusts.
Of dwellings held in family trusts, 53 per cent did not have a mortgage.
People living in the Tasman and West Coast regions were the most likely to own their own house and people in Auckland were the least likely.
The total number of occupied private dwellings on census night was 1.47 million, up 8 per cent from the 2001 census.
Most occupied dwellings (81 per cent) are still separate houses but there are marked differences in the type of properties that people live in between regions.
The number of dwellings joined to another dwelling has shot up 20 per cent since 2001.
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