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Auckland Economic Monitor

A summary of key macroeconomic information about Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, updating the corresponding publication from 2024.

This is the second annual edition of the Auckland Economic Monitor, prepared by the Economic Development Office of Auckland Council (previously part of Tātaki Auckland Unlimited) with the support of PwC New Zealand. Its aim is to provide an important source of information and analysis about the economic performance of the Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland region, from an industry and labour market perspective, serving as a useful tool to gain greater insight into key economic indicators and trends shaping Auckland.

Prior to the initial 2024 publication, the last comprehensive overview of Auckland’s economic performance was published in 2018, entitled the ‘Auckland Growth Monitor’.

While much of the macroeconomic information contained in this report is publicly available, it is dispersed across different locations and sources, can be hard to interpret, and is not often accompanied by commentary which identifies key trends, challenges and opportunities. The key benefit of the Auckland Economic Monitor is that it provides key macroeconomic information about our region’s economy in one place.

The data and insights contained in this publication can also be found at aucklandeconomicmonitor.com. While this publication is released annually, the relevant data on the website is updated more frequently, as updated data becomes available during the year. 

Focus of the 2025 Economic Monitor

• The 2025 Economic Monitor report focuses on what Auckland’s economy looks like today, and how it fared during a challenging 2024.
• It also summarises what the latest Census data tells us about Auckland’s population and its economy, based on recently released demographic, housing, employment, income and education data.
• The 2026 report will likely cover how Auckland has managed, and potentially recovered from, the current uncertainties facing the global economy.

Information base

• The information provided in this report is primarily sourced from StatsNZ and Infometrics, with some specific metrics also taken from other sources.
• For many metrics, the most recent data available is for the year ended March 2024. While this inherently means that the ‘current’ data presented in this report is more than a year old, effort has been made to provide additional commentary that reflects more recent trends or estimates.
• Where available, provisional data for the year ending March 2025 has been used. It is important to note that this data is unconfirmed and may differ from actual figures....

See also

www.aucklandeconomicmonitor.com

Auckland economic monitor. July 2024