Household fuel type
Lower Hutt City
| 2018 | 2013 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Household fuel type | Number | % | Wellington Region % | Number | % | Wellington Region % | 2013 - 2018 | ||
| Electricity | 27,264 | 79.0 | 78.0 | 28,734 | 84.1 | 84.0 | -1,470 | ||
| Gas | 10,989 | 31.8 | 25.6 | 14,265 | 41.8 | 34.1 | -3,276 | ||
| Wood | 8,118 | 23.5 | 28.1 | 8,910 | 26.1 | 30.2 | -792 | ||
| Coal | 84 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 819 | 2.4 | 2.1 | -735 | ||
| Home heating oil | - | - | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | ||
| Solar power | 9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 345 | 1.0 | 1.2 | -336 | ||
| No fuels used in this dwelling | 699 | 2.0 | 2.9 | 573 | 1.7 | 2.2 | +126 | ||
| Other fuel | 21 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 384 | 1.1 | 1.0 | -363 | ||
| Not elsewhere included | 3,102 | 9.0 | 8.3 | 1,929 | 5.6 | 4.9 | +1,173 | ||
| Total | 34,509 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 34,167 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +342 |
Source: Statistics New Zealand, Census of Population and Dwellings 2013 and 2018.
Stats NZ data quality rating: Moderate