Household fuel type
Kāpiti Coast District
| 2018 | 2013 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Household fuel type | Number | % | Wellington Region % | Number | % | Wellington Region % | 2013 - 2018 | ||
| Electricity | 15,774 | 76.1 | 78.0 | 16,167 | 81.4 | 84.0 | -393 | ||
| Gas | 4,941 | 23.8 | 25.6 | 6,372 | 32.1 | 34.1 | -1,431 | ||
| Wood | 7,932 | 38.3 | 28.1 | 7,818 | 39.4 | 30.2 | +114 | ||
| Coal | 63 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 324 | 1.6 | 2.1 | -261 | ||
| Home heating oil | - | - | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | ||
| Solar power | 12 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 300 | 1.5 | 1.2 | -288 | ||
| No fuels used in this dwelling | 234 | 1.1 | 2.9 | 225 | 1.1 | 2.2 | +9 | ||
| Other fuel | 18 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 192 | 1.0 | 1.0 | -174 | ||
| Not elsewhere included | 1,440 | 6.9 | 8.3 | 759 | 3.8 | 4.9 | +681 | ||
| Total | 20,730 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 19,857 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +873 |
Source: Statistics New Zealand, Census of Population and Dwellings 2013 and 2018.
Stats NZ data quality rating: Moderate