Housing rental payment quartiles
(renting households) | Springvale East |
| 2006 | 2001 | Change |
| Usual residence | number | % | Wanganui District % | number | % | Wanganui District % | 2001 to 2006 |
| Lowest group | 16 | 26.7 | 49.7 | 11 | 14.7 | 39.9 | 5 |
| Medium lowest | 35 | 58.3 | 41.8 | 42 | 56.0 | 47.2 | -7 |
| Medium highest | 9 | 15.0 | 6.9 | 22 | 29.3 | 11.2 | -13 |
| Highest group | 0 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 0 |
| Total | 60 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 75 | 100.0 | 100.0 | -15 |
Source: Statistics New Zealand, Census of Population and Dwellings, 2006, 2001 and 1996.
Please refer to the specific data notes for more information.
Rental payments are not comparable over time because of the influences of economic change such as inflation. The rental payment quartile method has been adopted as the most objective method of comparing change in the cost of rental housing of a community over time.
Rent quartiles look at the distribution of rental payments in Wanganui District Council relative to New Zealand. Quartiles split the total number of households into four equal parts for New Zealand. The table shows the number and proportion of households in Wanganui District Council falling into each segment relative to New Zealand.
The table gives a clear picture of the level of rental payments in Wanganui District Council relative to New Zealand. For New Zealand, 25% of households fall into each category, so by comparison, the table will show if there are more or less households in Wanganui District Council with high (or low) rent than in Wanganui District. If, for example, Wanganui District Council has 30% in the top category and only 20% in the lowest, this indicates that Wanganui District Council has proportionally more households paying 'top-quarter' rents, and less paying 'bottom-quarter' rents.
Rental payment quartiles allow us to compare rents over time. Analysis of the distribution of households by rental payment quartiles in Springvale East compared to Wanganui District shows that there was lower proportion of households in the highest payment quartile, as well as a lower proportion in the lowest payment quartile.
The most significant change in housing rental statistics in Springvale East between 2001 and 2006 was in the Medium highest quartile which showed a slight decrease of 13 households.
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