Editing Wellington Region (section)

===Culture and identity===
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|+ Largest groups of overseas-born residents<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nzdotstat.stats.govt.nz/wbos/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=TABLECODE8279#|title=Birthplace (detailed), for the census usually resident population count, 2006, 2013, and 2018 Censuses (RC, TA, SA2, DHB)|website=nzdotstat.stats.govt.nz|access-date=2020-02-28}}</ref>
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!Nationality || Population (2018)
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| {{flag|England}}|| 29,043
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| {{flag|India}}|| 11,334
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| {{flag|China}}|| 8,664
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| {{flag|Australia}}|| 8,400
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| {{flag|Samoa}}|| 7,410
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| {{flag|Philippines}} || 6,642
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| {{flag|South Africa}} || 6,435
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| {{flag|United States}}|| 4,581
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| {{flag|Fiji}}|| 4,047
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|{{flag|Scotland}}
|3,843
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People could identify as more than one ethnicity. The results in the 2023 census were 72.6% [[European New Zealanders|European]] ([[Pākehā]]); 15.5% [[Māori people|Māori]]; 9.1% [[Pasifika New Zealanders|Pasifika]]; 15.2% [[Asian New Zealanders|Asian]]; 2.3% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders (MELAA); and 2.2% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander". English was spoken by 96.2%, Māori language by 3.9%, Samoan by 2.8% and other languages by 17.2%. No language could be spoken by 2.0% (e.g. too young to talk). [[New Zealand Sign Language]] was known by 0.6%. The percentage of people born overseas was 28.1, compared with 28.8% nationally.

Religious affiliations were 31.1% [[Christianity in New Zealand|Christian]], 3.0% [[Hinduism in New Zealand|Hindu]], 1.3% [[Islam in New Zealand|Islam]], 0.7% [[Religion of Māori people|Māori religious beliefs]], 1.2% [[Buddhism in New Zealand|Buddhist]], 0.5% [[New Age]], 0.2% [[Judaism in New Zealand|Jewish]],  and 1.7% other religions. People who answered that they had [[Irreligion in New Zealand|no religion]] were 54.3%, and 6.1% of people did not answer the census question.<ref name="Census 2023"/>

In the 2013 census, around 25.3 percent of the Wellington Region's population was born overseas, second only to Auckland (39.1 percent) and on par with the New Zealand average (25.2 percent). The British Isles is the largest region of origin, accounting for 36.5 percent of the overseas-born population in the region. Significantly, the Wellington Region is home to over half of New Zealand's [[Tokelau]]an-born population.<ref name="NZdotstat">{{cite web |url=http://nzdotstat.stats.govt.nz/wbos/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=TABLECODE8041 |title=Birthplace (detailed), for the census usually resident population count, 2001, 2006, and 2013 (RC, TA) – NZ.Stat|publisher=Statistics New Zealand|access-date=23 January 2016}}</ref><ref name="quickstats_culture">{{cite web |url= http://www.stats.govt.nz/~/media/Statistics/Census/2013%20Census/profile-and-summary-reports/quickstats-culture-identity/tables.xls |title= 2013 Census QuickStats about culture and identity – data tables |publisher=[[Statistics New Zealand]] |date= 15 April 2014 |access-date= 29 January 2016}} Note some percentages (e.g. ethnicity, religion) may not add to 100 percent as people could give multiple responses or object to answering.</ref>

[[Catholicism]] was the largest Christian denomination in Wellington with 14.8 percent affiliating, while [[Anglicanism]] was the second-largest with 11.9 percent affiliating. [[Hinduism]] (2.4 percent) and [[Buddhism]] (1.6 percent) were the largest non-Christian religions in the 2013 census.<ref name="quickstats_culture" />