Energy mix
Low-carbon
Hydropower and geothermal generation support a favorable baseline.
Oceania
New Zealand City Intelligence
New Zealand's profile combines high quality of life, low-carbon electricity, and outdoor amenity, balanced by housing pressure in major cities. New Zealand is indexed at the country level in Oceania, with one city profile linked below.
- Last updated
- 2026-05-05
- Data year
- 2025
- Country code
- NZ
Outdoor amenity
Very high
Coastal and natural amenity supports a strong quality of daily life.
Affordability pressure
High
Housing pressure is the main resident well-being constraint in major cities.
New Zealand data table
Country pages group cities into crawlable clusters and give national context without replacing city-level comparisons.
| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Region | Oceania | Used for geographic clustering and regional comparisons. |
| Indexed cities | 1 | Auckland |
| Energy mix | Low-carbon | Hydropower and geothermal generation support a favorable baseline. |
| Outdoor amenity | Very high | Coastal and natural amenity supports a strong quality of daily life. |
| Affordability pressure | High | Housing pressure is the main resident well-being constraint in major cities. |
Indexed cities in New Zealand
Each linked city page includes its own metadata, data table, source block, and module links.
Auckland
New Zealand / Oceania
Auckland is most useful for users comparing outdoor amenity, clean-energy direction, and service quality against high housing pressure and storm exposure.
Overall84/100
Interpretation
The New Zealand cluster currently holds one indexed city, Auckland (84/100 overall). Use the country page as a parent context layer; module-level detail lives on each city profile. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-05. Drawn from 4 institutional references.
- All rankings compare city profiles through ranking tables.
- Browse all data sources for the source registry behind these scores.
- Read the scoring methodology for the scoring model used across modules.
This page uses a typed sample dataset shaped to demonstrate the indexable content structure. Values are directional and not official measurements.
Sources
4 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Mock values are typed and ready to be replaced by API-backed city datasets without changing route structure.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.
- International Energy Agency: Empowering Urban Energy Transitions
Used to ground energy-readiness scoring in international transition guidance.