Household fuel type
Western Ward (Lower Hutt City)
| 2018 | 2013 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Household fuel type | Number | % | Wellington Region % | Number | % | Wellington Region % | 2013 - 2018 | ||
| Electricity | 4,500 | 80.7 | 78.0 | 4,695 | 86.0 | 84.0 | -195 | ||
| Gas | 1,953 | 35.0 | 25.6 | 2,457 | 45.0 | 34.1 | -504 | ||
| Wood | 1,560 | 28.0 | 28.1 | 1,584 | 29.0 | 30.2 | -24 | ||
| Coal | 12 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 87 | 1.6 | 2.1 | -75 | ||
| Home heating oil | - | - | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | ||
| Solar power | 3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 45 | 0.8 | 1.2 | -42 | ||
| No fuels used in this dwelling | 60 | 1.1 | 2.9 | 63 | 1.2 | 2.2 | -3 | ||
| Other fuel | 3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 30 | 0.5 | 1.0 | -27 | ||
| Not elsewhere included | 273 | 4.9 | 8.3 | 186 | 3.4 | 4.9 | +87 | ||
| Total | 5,574 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 5,457 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +117 |
Source: Statistics New Zealand, Census of Population and Dwellings 2013 and 2018.
Stats NZ data quality rating: Moderate