Most international cities in New Zealand
Queenstown, New Zealand has the highest foreign-resident share of the 23 cities compared: 40.2 % (Stats NZ, 2023-12-31).
New Zealand cities ranked by the published share of foreign residents; definitions remain source-specific.
- Items compared
- 23
- Countries represented
- 1
- Last checked
- 2026-08-03
Source-backed answers
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| Original rank | City or place | Source and scope | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Queenstown, New Zealand | 40.2 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 2 | Wellington, New Zealand | 34.4 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 3 | Hamilton, New Zealand | 30.1 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 4 | Christchurch, New Zealand | 27.8 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 5 | Lower Hutt, New Zealand | 27.6 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 6 | Nelson, New Zealand | 26.4 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 7 | Porirua, New Zealand | 25.9 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 8 | Tauranga, New Zealand | 25.2 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 9 | Upper Hutt, New Zealand | 23.3 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 10 | Palmerston North, New Zealand | 21.8 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 11 | Dunedin, New Zealand | 21.1 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 12 | Ashburton, New Zealand | 20.6 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 13 | Hastings, New Zealand | 19.1 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 14 | Whangarei, New Zealand | 18.4 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 15 | Napier, New Zealand | 17.9 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 16 | Rotorua, New Zealand | 17.9 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 17 | Taupo, New Zealand | 17.8 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 18 | New Plymouth, New Zealand | 17 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 19 | Timaru, New Zealand | 16 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 20 | Invercargill, New Zealand | 14.8 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 21 | Masterton, New Zealand | 14.6 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 22 | Whanganui, New Zealand | 13.4 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
| 23 | Gisborne, New Zealand | 11.6 % | 2026-08-03 | Source Scope: city · Period: 2023-12-31 |
What the numbers say
- Queenstown, New Zealand leads at 40.2 %.
- Gisborne, New Zealand sits at the other end with 11.6 %.
- The middle of this ranking is 20.6 %, across 23 places that publish the metric.
- The spread between first and last is 28.6 %.
Quick answer
What does Most international cities in New Zealand show?
Queenstown, New Zealand has the highest foreign-resident share of the 23 cities compared: 40.2 % (Stats NZ, 2023-12-31).
How this list is built
Every row is a published foreign-resident share observation measured in %, ranked highest first. The values were observed in 2023. A place appears only when it publishes this exact metric, so an absent place means missing data rather than a low value. Only published cities with at least 20,000 residents and city-level observations qualify.
- Compare the displayed value, unit, source date and geographic grain together.
- A city label does not change a regional observation into a city measurement.
- Rows
- 23 places
- Geographic grain
- city
- Observation period
- 2023-12-31
- Last checked
- 2026-08-03
- With an official source link
- 23 of 23
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, August 3). Most international cities in New Zealand [ImmigrationDB compilation; version f4bfa36dee7abac97a5addd3498b0555]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/reports/new-zealand-most-international-cities/ Retrieved 2026-08-03. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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title = {Most international cities in New Zealand},
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