Tongan New Zealanders, also known as

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Tongans are

Tonga Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania. The country has 171 islands, of which 45 are inhabited. Its total surface area is about , scattered over in the southern Pacific Ocean. accordin ...

n immigrants in New Zealand, their descendants, and

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of Tongan

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descent. They constitute one of New Zealand's most sizeable ethnic minorities. In the 2013 census, 60,336 New Zealanders identified themselves as being of Tongan ethnicity with 22,413 stating that they were born in

Demographics

There were 82,389 people identifying as being part of the Tongan ethnic group at the

2018 New Zealand census The 2018 New Zealand census, which took place on Tuesday 6 March 2018, was the thirty-fourth national census in New Zealand. The population of New Zealand was counted as 4,699,755 – an increase of 457,707 (10.79%) over the 2013 census. Resu ...

, making up 1.7% of New Zealand's population. This is an increase of 22,056 people (36.6%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 31,911 people (63.2%) since the 2006 census. Some of the increase between the 2013 and 2018 census was due to

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adding ethnicity data from other sources (previous censuses, administrative data, and imputation) to the 2018 census data to reduce the number of non-responses. There were 42,057 males and 40,355 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.042 males per female. Of the population, 31,539 people (38.3%) were aged under 15 years, 22,152 (26.9%) were 15 to 29, 24,969 (30.3%) were 30 to 64, and 3,729 (4.5%) were 65 or older. In terms of population distribution, 75.7% of Tongan New Zealanders lived in the

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, 17.1% lived in the North Island outside the Auckland region, and 7.2% lived in the South Island. The Māngere-Ōtāhuhu local board area of Auckland had the highest concentration of Tongan people at 20.1%, followed by the Ōtara-Papatoetoe local board area (10.7%) and the

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(10.4%). The

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has the highest concentration of Tongan peoples outside of Auckland at 2.4%. The

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and the

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had the lowest concentrations, recording no Tongan people in their respective areas.

Religion

Source: 2018 census

Notable people

References

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Demographics

Religion

Notable people

See also

References