North Shore City - Demographics

Demographics

In the 2006 census, the median income for North Shore residents over 15 years was $29,100, compared with a national average of $24,400.

The racial makeup of the city was 67.5% European, 18.5% Asian, 6.3% Māori, 3.4% Pacific Islander, and 1.8% from the Middle East, Africa or Latin America. Just under 10% gave their ethnicity as "New Zealander", with most of this group having identified itself as European in former Census surveys.

A notable amount of South African expatriates have made North Shore their home, where some estimates have them as 10% (or more) of the total population with most residing in the East Coast Bays.