Medium-sized stand-alone houses, with a floor area between 100 and 200 square metres, became more common in the last decade, Stats NZ said today.
"More than 11,000 medium-sized stand-alone houses were consented in 2020, doubling what we saw in 2010 during the home-building slump that followed the global financial crisis," construction statistics manager Michael Heslop said.
"These medium-sized houses are most likely to have three or four bedrooms."
| Year ended December | More than 300 square metres | 200 to 300 square metres | 100 to 200 square metres | Less than 100 square metres |
| 1991 | 522 | 2231 | 5834 | 3793 |
| 1992 | 617 | 2874 | 6676 | 2889 |
| 1993 | 773 | 3381 | 7337 | 2385 |
| 1994 | 1110 | 4429 | 8426 | 2265 |
| 1995 | 1137 | 4136 | 7301 | 1967 |
| 1996 | 1323 | 4648 | 8894 | 2277 |
| 1997 | 1187 | 4647 | 9926 | 2834 |
| 1998 | 988 | 3747 | 8373 | 2144 |
| 1999 | 1276 | 5068 | 10727 | 2122 |
| 2000 | 1380 | 4563 | 7798 | 1653 |
| 2001 | 1598 | 4962 | 7679 | 1566 |
| 2002 | 2146 | 6691 | 8869 | 1434 |
| 2003 | 2511 | 8159 | 10146 | 1598 |
| 2004 | 2826 | 8298 | 9139 | 1679 |
| 2005 | 2719 | 7594 | 7468 | 1609 |
| 2006 | 2598 | 8127 | 7602 | 1669 |
| 2007 | 2639 | 7969 | 8011 | 1663 |
| 2008 | 2186 | 5318 | 5339 | 1336 |
| 2009 | 1645 | 4245 | 4740 | 944 |
| 2010 | 1741 | 5127 | 5239 | 959 |
| 2011 | 1375 | 4382 | 4409 | 946 |
| 2012 | 1665 | 5679 | 5570 | 819 |
| 2013 | 1913 | 6937 | 7004 | 867 |
| 2014 | 2326 | 7118 | 7913 | 1002 |
| 2015 | 2056 | 7224 | 8756 | 1002 |
| 2016 | 2380 | 7945 | 9854 | 1131 |
| 2017 | 2284 | 7773 | 9609 | 1356 |
| 2018 | 2285 | 6939 | 10186 | 1715 |
| 2019 | 2134 | 6649 | 11264 | 2222 |
| 2020 | 2012 | 6270 | 11792 | 2138 |
| Year ended December | Floor area (square metres) |
| 1974 | 109 |
| 1975 | 107 |
| 1976 | 112 |
| 1977 | 113 |
| 1978 | 115 |
| 1979 | 123 |
| 1980 | 126 |
| 1981 | 132 |
| 1982 | 128 |
| 1983 | 125 |
| 1984 | 123 |
| 1985 | 123 |
| 1986 | 126 |
| 1987 | 127 |
| 1988 | 126 |
| 1989 | 130 |
| 1990 | 136 |
| 1991 | 139 |
| 1992 | 151 |
| 1993 | 159 |
| 1994 | 164 |
| 1995 | 171 |
| 1996 | 172 |
| 1997 | 162 |
| 1998 | 157 |
| 1999 | 163 |
| 2000 | 174 |
| 2001 | 178 |
| 2002 | 176 |
| 2003 | 185 |
| 2004 | 180 |
| 2005 | 191 |
| 2006 | 191 |
| 2007 | 196 |
| 2008 | 197 |
| 2009 | 195 |
| 2010 | 200 |
| 2011 | 192 |
| 2012 | 197 |
| 2013 | 192 |
| 2014 | 187 |
| 2015 | 179 |
| 2016 | 182 |
| 2017 | 177 |
| 2018 | 170 |
| 2019 | 158 |
| 2020 | 156 |
For more information on housing see the Housing in Aotearoa: 2020 report.
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