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In 2019 we had one of the highest net migration inflows per head of population, with 11.4 per 1000 people, compared to 2.4 per 1000 in Britain and 3.8 per 1000 in the United States. Businesses have benefited from this large growth in labour, and admitted as much during the conference’s morning tea break. Over danishes, croissants, bliss balls and coffee, directors confessed migrants on work visas sometimes made up the majority of their workers in areas like information technology. Now the migration tap has been turned off and those settings could stay this way for a significant period of time according to Spoonley.
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Significant challenges on Tauranga s horizon as population set to boom by 71,000
3 May, 2021 06:00 PM
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Barry Muir has lived here since 1948, and remembers a completely different Tauranga. Significant challenges have been forecast for Tauranga and the Western Bay district with the area s total population expected to grow to nearly 270,000 in the next 27 years. In 2018, the Census estimated 142,100 people lived in Tauranga City and 53,300 in the Western Bay of Plenty. Collectively, these populations were expected to grow by 20,000 in the next two years.
But new projections obtained by the Bay of Plenty Times from Statistics New Zealand reveal Tauranga s population is predicted to soar 57,000 to reach 199,100 and Western Bay s by 14,700 to reach 68,000 by 2048 making a total of 267,100.