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The University of Otago, the oldest university in New Zealand, in 1869. [43] Otago Girls' High School was established in 1871. New Zealand Insurance Co Ltd, Dunedin (built 1899) By 1874, Dunedin and its suburbs had become New Zealand's largest city with a population of 29,832 displacing Auckland's 27,840 residents to second place. [44]
This is a list of cities and towns in the South Island of New Zealand by the population of their urban area. The populations given in the table below are provisional New Zealand usually resident populations, June 2024 estimates, and refer to the urban area defined under the Statistical Standard for Geographic Areas 2018 (SSGA) unless otherwise ...
Dunedin is a city of 136,000 people (June 2024) in the South Island of New Zealand. [1] ... Dunedin North's 2001 population, including the University area, was 7,047.
This article lists urban areas of New Zealand—as defined by Statistics New Zealand—ranked by population. Only the 150 largest urban areas are listed. Urban areas are defined by the Statistical Standard for Geographic Areas 2018 (SSGA18).
Statistics New Zealand creates standards for statistical geographic areas that are the basis for determining population figures. Statistics New Zealand announced in 2017 that the Statistical Standard for Geographic Areas 2018 (SSGA18) would replace the New Zealand Standard Areas Classification 1992 (NZSAC92).
The population is 257,200 as of June 2024, [1] [1] which is approximately 4.8 percent of New Zealand's total population of 5.3 million. The population density is 8.2 people per km 2. About 41.5 percent of the population resides in the Dunedin urban area—the region's main city and the country's sixth largest urban area.
For the first 150 years after settlement the population of all New Zealand remained extremely low (~2000 people) [2] and the southern South Island with its high seal population was a major hub of activity. However, from 1500 onward, as kumara could not be grown at Dunedin's latitude the area became depopulated in comparison with the North Island.
As of June 2024, the urban population made up 84.3% of New Zealand's total population. The current standard for urban areas is the Statistical Standard for Geographic Areas 2018 (SSGA18), which replaced the New Zealand Standard Areas Classification 1992 (NZSAC92) in 2018. [2] There are four classes of urban area under SSGA18: