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Hawke’s Bay population

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Hawke’s Bay population

Most of Hawke’s Bay’s land is designated rural, but in the 2010s most of the population lived in the urban zone around Napier and Hastings.

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Source: Statistics New Zealand

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Kerryn Pollock, Hawke’s Bay region – Society, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/map/23943/hawkes-bay-population (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 22 January 2010, updated 1 July 2015.