Northcote is a town centre located on Auckland’s North Shore that contains a mixture of goods and services retail activities. These include food hospitality; household and medical services; core retail; and food and liquor retail, including a medium sized supermarket. The centre is ethnically diverse in terms of its business owners, the goods and services on offer and the communities who shop and socialise therein. The centre also contains a range of transport and social infrastructure and public space, making it an important hub of amenity for the surrounding community.

The analysis in this report utilises electronic transactions data capturing the electronic component (Eftpos, credit and debit cards) of spending from households.

Auckland Council technical report, TR2015/023

August 2015