Household fuel type
Western Ward (Porirua City)
| 2018 | 2013 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Household fuel type | Number | % | Wellington Region % | Number | % | Wellington Region % | 2013 - 2018 | ||
| Electricity | 2,589 | 80.4 | 78.0 | 2,829 | 84.1 | 84.0 | -240 | ||
| Gas | 615 | 19.1 | 25.6 | 954 | 28.4 | 34.1 | -339 | ||
| Wood | 915 | 28.4 | 28.1 | 1,041 | 31.0 | 30.2 | -126 | ||
| Coal | 15 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 108 | 3.2 | 2.1 | -93 | ||
| Home heating oil | - | - | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | ||
| Solar power | - | - | 0.0 | 33 | 1.0 | 1.2 | -33 | ||
| No fuels used in this dwelling | 96 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 105 | 3.1 | 2.2 | -9 | ||
| Other fuel | 3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 45 | 1.3 | 1.0 | -42 | ||
| Not elsewhere included | 429 | 13.3 | 8.3 | 237 | 7.0 | 4.9 | +192 | ||
| Total | 3,222 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 3,363 | 100.0 | 100.0 | -141 |
Source: Statistics New Zealand, Census of Population and Dwellings 2013 and 2018.
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