Iwi Population Spatial Distribution Summary Māori
NIDEA Brief No. 5 IWI POPULATION SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION September 2015 How do patterns of iwi identification vary by Table 6: Number & distribution of iwi identified and ‘don’t know iwi’ region? In 1996 and in 2013 the largest number populations by Regional Council, 1996 & 2013 of Ma ori descendants reporting at least one iwi Regional Council (RC) Iwi identified population Don't know iwi (%) of lived in Auckland, followed by Waikato, and the Māori Descent1 within RC Bay of Plenty. This is to be expected, given that 1996 2013 1996 2013 Northland Region 34,386 40,287 17.8 13.6 TE AO HURIHURI these regions also have the largest Ma ori Auckland Region 101,361 129,552 22.5 18.4 IWI IDENTIFICATION I N THE CENSUS populations. What about the regional distribution Waikato Region 58,980 73,338 19.5 17.1 of Ma ori who do not know their iwi? Table 6 Bay of Plenty Region 54,018 62,994 14.3 12.2 Gisborne Region 17,250 18,009 9.7 8.1 Tahu Kukutai and Moana Rarere shows that there is tremendous regional Hawke's Bay Region 25,575 29,967 18.8 15.5 variation. In 2013, only 8 per cent of Ma ori living Taranaki Region 11,307 14,919 28.1 23.6 Inside this issue: in the Gisborne region did not know their iwi, Manawatu-Wanganui Region 30,984 36,933 23.8 18.8 Wellington Region 40,872 53,277 19.9 15.9 MĀORI IDENTITY CATEGORIES Māori identity 2 compared to nearly one quarter of Ma ori in the Tasman Region 2,007 3,195 30.6 23.2 categories West Coast.
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