City demographics

The city centre community is made up of a diverse range of people who live here or come for work, study, shopping or leisure.

• 38,470 residents*
• 157,530 workers*
  Working for 15,201 businesses of all types and sizes
• 56,388 university students**
  Boosting the city’s daytime population and adding vibrancy

_{* Infometrics Auckland CBD Economic Profile, 2023 figures, accessed 11 January 2024
** Domestic full-time student totals from AUT and University of Auckland annual reports 2022} 

Further information about the people who live within the Heart of the City boundary can be found in  Statistics NZ’s Auckland census data. Get the closest to our boundary by adding together three city centre consensus area units – Auckland Central East, Auckland Central West and Auckland Harbourside.