Household fuel type
Eastern Ward (Wellington City)
| 2018 | 2013 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Household fuel type | Number | % | Wellington Region % | Number | % | Wellington Region % | 2013 - 2018 | ||
| Electricity | 10,719 | 80.8 | 78.0 | 11,664 | 87.8 | 84.0 | -945 | ||
| Gas | 4,008 | 30.2 | 25.6 | 5,178 | 39.0 | 34.1 | -1,170 | ||
| Wood | 1,767 | 13.3 | 28.1 | 2,073 | 15.6 | 30.2 | -306 | ||
| Coal | 27 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 231 | 1.7 | 2.1 | -204 | ||
| Home heating oil | - | - | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | ||
| Solar power | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 105 | 0.8 | 1.2 | -99 | ||
| No fuels used in this dwelling | 414 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 273 | 2.1 | 2.2 | +141 | ||
| Other fuel | 6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 126 | 0.9 | 1.0 | -120 | ||
| Not elsewhere included | 1,152 | 8.7 | 8.3 | 684 | 5.2 | 4.9 | +468 | ||
| Total | 13,269 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 13,278 | 100.0 | 100.0 | -9 |
Source: Statistics New Zealand, Census of Population and Dwellings 2013 and 2018.
Stats NZ data quality rating: Moderate