Our Patch – Wellsford: Town stats

  • The resident population of Wellsford at the time of the 2013 census was 1698, an increase of 27 people, or 1.6 per cent, since the 2006 census.
  • There are 867 females and 828 males in Wellsford, and most are aged between 15 and 64 years. The median age is 38.4 years. 18.9 per cent are aged 65 years and over, compared to 11.5 per cent in Auckland.
  • Wellsford accounts for less than one per cent of Auckland’s population.
  • The most common ethnic groups are European (80.2 per cent), followed by Maori (24 per cent).
  • There are 669 occupied dwellings and 60 unoccupied dwellings in Wellsford, and one-family households make up 64.3 per cent of all households.
  • The average household size in Wellsford is 2.5 people, compared with an average of 3.0 people per household for all of Auckland.
  • 9.1 per cent of households in Wellsford have access to three or more motor vehicles, compared with 18.4 per cent of all households in Auckland.

Statistics NZ