What Percentage is Our Land Used For

I sent a question to Auckland Council on what proportion of our land was used in what per Unitary Plan definitions. After the council geo-spatial specialists crunched some numbers this is what was sent back to me:

From Shape Auckland (shapeauckland.co.nz)

Our Geospatial specialists have looked into this for you. I’ve included the breakdown of all the zones since it makes quite interesting reading.
Unitary Plan Zone (%)

• Single House 2.89
• Mixed Housing 3.52
• Terrace Housing and Apartment Building 0.49
• Large lot 0.77
• Rural and Coastal Settlement 0.39
• Neighbourhood Centre 0.03
• Local Centre 0.04
• Town Centre 0.09
• Metropolitan Centre 0.08
• City Centre 0.11
• Mixed Use 0.20
• Business Park 0.02
• General Business 0.05
• Light Industry 0.94
• Heavy Industry 0.37
• Rural Coastal 16.66
• Rural Conservation 2.52
• Rural Production 47.41
• Mixed Rural 1.79
• Countryside Living 5.84
• Marina 0.04
• Minor Port 0.01
• Mooring 0.30
• Public Open Space – Conservation 7.24
• Public Open Space – Informal Recreation 1.76
• Public Open Space – Civic & Community 0.02
• Public Open Space – Sport & Active Recreation 0.64
• Special Purpose 1.08
• Future Urban 0.28
• Strategic Transport Corridor 0.59
• Road 3.84

A thank you and appreciation to Auckland Council and their geo-spatial specialists for compiling that data. And yes it does make for an interesting read, especially when road dwarfs out quite a bit of the individual urban zones.

I shall tell a look at these numbers some more and ponder over them but for the most part, well over of 60% of our land is not urbanised.