Wellington Region
First-level unit, New Zealand: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.
Inside Wellington Region
The 8 ADM2 units of Wellington Region.
People, area and density
Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.
544,638
11.4% of New Zealand.
518,145
-5% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.
8,109 km²
67 people per km².
NZ-WGN
Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.
35,198
people on land at or below 10 m, 6.5% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).
8 units inside Wellington Region
Each unit has its own page.
Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
| Unit | Code | People (GHSL) | People (WorldPop) | Area km² | Per km² | Share | Coast ≤ 10 m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carterton District | – | 10,630 | 9,895 | 1,178.28 | 9 | 2% | 1 |
| Kapiti Coast District | – | 38,089 | 38,773 | 730.88 | 52 | 7% | 7,087 |
| Lower Hutt City | – | 109,950 | 111,257 | 376.23 | 292 | 20.2% | 14,645 |
| Masterton District | – | 27,158 | 29,628 | 2,296.28 | 12 | 5% | 26 |
| Porirua City | – | 61,828 | 59,725 | 174.81 | 354 | 11.4% | 1,670 |
| South Wairarapa District | – | 11,807 | 11,780 | 2,454.43 | 5 | 2.2% | 657 |
| Upper Hutt City | – | 48,529 | 48,821 | 539.11 | 90 | 8.9% | 0 |
| Wellington City | – | 236,608 | 208,264 | 289.96 | 816 | 43.4% | 8,222 |
Open exposure layers
Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.
- Urban areas
- 64 H3 cells
- Hawens
- None at this resolution
- Lughawens
- 1 H3 cells
- Major roads
- 501.4 H3 cells
- Spoorweë
- 273.7 H3 cells
- Rivers and lakes
- 132.1 H3 cells
Risk values
Neighbouring units
- NZ-MWTManawatu-Wanganui Region
Sources, credits and licences
- ADM1 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen NZL ADM1, source: NZ Stats, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2017
- ADM2 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen NZL ADM2, source: Stats NZ, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2021
- ADM3 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen NZL ADM3, source: NZ Stats, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2017
- Basemap
- OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
- Terrain
- Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
- People
- GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
- Lande
- Natural Earth (public domain).
- Elevation
- GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
- Position
- Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.
Status
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