CivicNZ · NZ Index
Five official outcome areas. One public score.
Health, Affordability and Wellbeing have live desks. Housing and Safety are Insufficient on the homepage until a desk exists. The composite Index is experimental and scores official observed points only.
Topic desks
Affordability and wellbeing
Each desk answers a plain question, then shows the official series, breakdowns, and a findings feed. Correlations are labelled as association, not causation.
Cost of living
FlatIs the cost of living easing?
On the latest official series, tracked topics are split — no overall Better or Worse majority.
- Better
- 1
- Worse
- 1
- Flat
- 1
Data as of 13 Oct 2026 · 12 findings
How are we?
FlatHow are we?
Mean life satisfaction is 7.6 out of 10, similar to 7.7 out of 10 in January 2021.
- Better
- 0
- Worse
- 2
- Flat
- 2
Data as of 25 Sept 2024 · 11 findings
Composite index
Health, housing and safety
Scored as z-scores versus 2015–2024, then 50 + 10z. Trend labels are Improving, Worsening or Flat. Equal published weights.
health
Health
Hospital waits, emergency care, and childhood immunisation.
Open the desk →
housing
Housing
No housing desk yet. Official MSD snapshots sit on the experimental Index; rent-to-income and consents are excluded.
Why this is Insufficient →
safety
Safety
Insufficient — no safety desk. Methods exclude all four Safety series until an official compiled series exists.
Why this is Insufficient →
How to read this
- Official or openly licensed primary sources only. Every figure carries a source link and a data-as-of date.
- REINZ and CoreLogic commercial house-price files are not used.
- A group gap without an official adjusted figure shows “Not published”. CivicNZ does not invent one.
- The public JSON is free at /index, /health-outcomes/summary, /affordability/summary and /wellbeing/summary.