Inner-city apartment dweller myths dispelled
The myth that Auckland's inner-city apartments are full of Asian students has been shattered by the first comprehensive analysis of Census returns for the central city.
Thursday, November 24th 2005, 6:16PM
by The Landlord
The Statistics New Zealand analysis shows that 92 per cent of people aged 15 and over who were living in the inner city at the 2001 Census were working, only 1 per cent less than the national average of 93 per cent.Only 18 per cent were fulltime students, and most of them were working as well.
Asians were heavily over-represented, filling 31 per cent of the places in inner-city flats compared with their 7 per cent share of the national population.
But 65 per cent of the inner-city's 5283 apartment dwellers were Pakeha.
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