Household fuel type
Paraparaumu Ward
| 2018 | 2013 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Household fuel type | Number | % | Wellington Region % | Number | % | Wellington Region % | 2013 - 2018 | ||
| Electricity | 6,000 | 76.1 | 78.0 | 6,207 | 81.7 | 84.0 | -207 | ||
| Gas | 2,415 | 30.6 | 25.6 | 2,994 | 39.4 | 34.1 | -579 | ||
| Wood | 2,130 | 27.0 | 28.1 | 2,055 | 27.0 | 30.2 | +75 | ||
| Coal | 15 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 90 | 1.2 | 2.1 | -75 | ||
| Home heating oil | - | - | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | ||
| Solar power | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 90 | 1.2 | 1.2 | -87 | ||
| No fuels used in this dwelling | 99 | 1.3 | 2.9 | 90 | 1.2 | 2.2 | +9 | ||
| Other fuel | 6 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 69 | 0.9 | 1.0 | -63 | ||
| Not elsewhere included | 516 | 6.5 | 8.3 | 300 | 3.9 | 4.9 | +216 | ||
| Total | 7,881 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 7,599 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +282 |
Source: Statistics New Zealand, Census of Population and Dwellings 2013 and 2018.
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