Household fuel type
Masterton District
| 2018 | 2013 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Household fuel type | Number | % | Wellington Region % | Number | % | Wellington Region % | 2013 - 2018 | ||
| Electricity | 6,162 | 66.8 | 78.0 | 6,549 | 71.1 | 84.0 | -387 | ||
| Gas | 999 | 10.8 | 25.6 | 1,851 | 20.1 | 34.1 | -852 | ||
| Wood | 6,618 | 71.7 | 28.1 | 6,639 | 72.1 | 30.2 | -21 | ||
| Coal | 60 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 285 | 3.1 | 2.1 | -225 | ||
| Home heating oil | - | - | 0.0 | - | - | - | - | ||
| Solar power | 6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 168 | 1.8 | 1.2 | -162 | ||
| No fuels used in this dwelling | 60 | 0.7 | 2.9 | 69 | 0.7 | 2.2 | -9 | ||
| Other fuel | 18 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 117 | 1.3 | 1.0 | -99 | ||
| Not elsewhere included | 870 | 9.4 | 8.3 | 348 | 3.8 | 4.9 | +522 | ||
| Total | 9,225 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 9,207 | 100.0 | 100.0 | +18 |
Source: Statistics New Zealand, Census of Population and Dwellings 2013 and 2018.
Stats NZ data quality rating: Moderate