New Zealand

TL2 regional drilldown

Sub-national disposable income across the country's TL2 (Territorial Level 2) regions. Bars are scaled relative to the country mean — a value of 1.20× means that region's residents have 20% more disposable income than the national average. The dashed vertical line marks the mean.

TL2 regions

Coefficient of variation

0.145

Richest / poorest ratio

1.81×

Latest year

2021

Regional income relative to country mean

Each bar is one TL2 region. Darker color = above mean; lighter = below. Bars sorted by absolute value, descending.

All regions

#	Region	USD PPP / capita	Share of mean
1	Wellington RegionNZ19	28,896	1.38×
2	Auckland RegionNZ12	26,397	1.26×
3	Wellington RegionNZ19	24,652	1.17×
4	Canterbury RegionNZ23	23,688	1.13×
5	Otago RegionNZ24	22,766	1.08×
6	Auckland RegionNZ12	22,567	1.07×
7	Manawatu-Wanganui RegionNZ18	22,559	1.07×
8	Bay of Plenty RegionNZ14	22,373	1.06×
9	Southland RegionNZ25	22,131	1.05×
10	Waikato RegionNZ13	21,932	1.04×
11	Taranaki RegionNZ17	21,729	1.03×
12	Tasman-Nelson-MarlboroughNZ21	20,859	0.99×
13	Gisborne RegionNZ15	20,760	0.99×
14	Canterbury RegionNZ23	20,300	0.97×
15	Waikato RegionNZ13	19,505	0.93×
16	Bay of Plenty RegionNZ14	19,285	0.92×
17	Otago RegionNZ24	19,242	0.92×
18	Taranaki RegionNZ17	19,076	0.91×
19	Manawatu-Wanganui RegionNZ18	18,551	0.88×
20	Tasman-Nelson-MarlboroughNZ21	18,374	0.87×
21	Gisborne RegionNZ15	18,335	0.87×
22	Northland RegionNZ11	17,841	0.85×
23	Southland RegionNZ25	16,505	0.79×
24	Northland RegionNZ11	15,992	0.76×

Source: OECD CFE.EDS, DSD_REG_ECO@DF_INC. Disposable income (B6N), per capita, USD PPP. Region codes follow OECD TL2 classification — the standard sub-national breakdown for cross-country comparison (e.g. NL32 = North Holland, USCA = California). Latest available year per country, which may differ between countries.