Waikato regional economic profile - Waikato Regional Council

Figure 108: Geographic units with 0-19 employees by regional council area (2011)There is very little variation between the different regions and territorial authorities.South Waikato district has the lowest proportion of owner-operator businesses (58 percent). Only 0.5 per cent of New Zealand business geographic units have more than ahundred employees, and the Waikato region is slightly lower at 0.4 per cent, asreflected in table 14.Table 14: Industry geographic units by size and TA (2011)Number of employeesArea 0 1 to 5 6 to 9 10 to 19 20 to 49 50 to 99 100+New Zealand 330045 110701 25927 20990 11563 3543 2425Waikato Region 32863 12216 2457 1967 991 295 190Thames-Coromandel 2709 977 230 130 48 13 8Hauraki District 1692 663 88 76 31 11 5Waikato District 5853 1681 216 191 89 26 11Matamata-PiakoDistrict 3387 1397 182 159 64 23 13Hamilton City 7670 3116 894 742 436 140 116Waipa District 4671 1523 270 222 116 23 15Ōtorohanga District 1244 482 56 45 11 6 1South Waikato District 1344 653 133 91 55 21 6Waitomo District 1025 391 76 53 26 9 5Taupō District 2778 1112 285 243 111 19 11The areas with lower proportions of small and medium-sized enterprise employmenttend to be the larger metropolitan areas, where larger businesses are more likely to belocated. The Waikato region’s proportion of small and medium-sized enterpriseemployment is similar to the Bay of Plenty – it has more large firms than many smallerregions but has fewer large firms than Auckland, Wellington and Canterbury, asillustrated by figure 109.Page 116 Doc # 2069885