It's ten years today since smoking was banned in bars, but Maori are still more likely to smoke than Europeans. We map where the ethnic smoking gap lies.

Auckland's housing crisis will not be solved even if the Government's ambitious forecasts for residential construction are achieved, official documents show.

Principals say it's "party time" in many Auckland schools because the city's housing shortage has bumped about half the region's schools down the decile ratings.

The Ministry of Education has begun informing schools of their new decile ratings and at least one Auckland school will need to rely more on parent fundraising as a result.

Childless couples are making up an increasingly large proportion of families - a trend that has been on the rise for more than 20 years, Statistics New Zealand says.

Did you know there are 243 Eritreans living in New Zealand and more than four in five are born overseas?

In a land where Smith, Jones and Wilson once ruled the nursery, Wang, Li and Chen are now the most common surnames for babies born in our most diverse city.

The other day, I realised that we've had cows in the garden for the past six years, and I've never milked them, writes Verity Johnson.

The so-called "normal" 40-hour working week appears to be a thing of the past, the 2013 Census indicates.

New Zealand will be made made up of a people of multiple "national" identities and its population growth may be entirely dependent on immigration, says a new study.

The number of homeowners in New Zealand continues to fall, with fewer than half of all Kiwis owning their own property, new Census figures show.

If you want your pay packet boosted, head to the West Coast; if religion is your thing, Auckland is the place to be; and if you value your marriage avoid Nelson.

A breakdown of results from the latest census shows how Aucklanders are more religious, smoke less ... and they're well behind Nelson for divorces.

New Zealand's most religious regions have been revealed in the latest Census data. Click here for an interactive graphic looking at the various districts.

The South Island has had bigger median income gains than the North over the past seven years, Census figures show.

New Zealand has more ethnicities than there are countries in the world, the 2013 census has revealed.

Personal income has fallen dramatically in South Auckland compared to more affluent Auckland areas, according to the latest Census data.

A Hastings man summoned to court after failing to fill in the 2013 census has completed the forms and talked his way out of a fine.

Adults' rate of smoking has declined to 15 per cent in the latest census, down from 20.7 per cent in 2006.

The Auckland Council reckons Auckland is 20,000 to 30,000 dwellings short of what it needs, writes Brian Fallow.The NZ Institute of Economic Research begs to differ, putting the shortfall at just 5000.

Editorial: It has been a long wait for a clear measure of New Zealand's population. Now the census confirms it's 4.24m, it's time to think about how to increase that headcount.

The gap between the rich and the poor appears to be widening with the number of Kiwis earning more than $100,000 increasing by nearly three quarters.

An empty holiday season can hold painful memories of partners lost and families gone, writes Russell Hoban.

Maori will be outnumbered by Asians as the second-biggest ethnic group in New Zealand within the next decade, a leading academic says.

Our latest batch of citizens are embracing the multicultural nature of the country they now call home.

The typical Kiwi on Census day 2013 was aged 38, earned $28,500 a year, worked in a service job and owned his or her own home.