Bay of Plenty · New Zealand
Tauranga population
161,000people · latest figure
Tauranga has a population of 161,000, making it the 6th largest place we list in New Zealand. It is in Bay of Plenty.
Tauranga holds 3.0% of New Zealand's 5,287,479 people. Auckland, the largest place we list there, is 9.6 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 110,338, a rise of 46%.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Wellington | Wellington Region | 381,900 |
| Manukau City | Auckland | 362,000 |
| Hamilton | Waikato Region | 192,100 |
| Dunedin | Otago | 132,800 |
| Lower Hutt | Wellington Region | 114,200 |
| Palmerston North | Manawatu-Wanganui | 90,500 |
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.