New Zealand by region
64,640 venues across 8 regions and 6,269 named towns and suburbs.
New Zealand's venues are not spread evenly. New South Wales alone holds 29% of everything we map, and the top three regions — New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland — account for 73% between them. The three smallest — Tasmania (1,957), Australian Capital Territory (1,159) and Northern Territory (592) — hold 6% between them.
The ratio of eating places to accommodation is the number that most distinguishes one region from another. Nationally it runs 75% eat to 25% stay. Northern Territory is the most accommodation-heavy region of any size at 39%, while Australian Capital Territory is the least at 6% — the difference between a region that hosts visitors and one that mainly feeds its own residents.
Each region page below breaks that region down by town, category and cuisine, and states how far its mix departs from the national picture. Towns with at least 25 venues get a page of their own; smaller places are listed on the region page rather than given a page with nothing on it. All of it derives from OpenStreetMap under the Open Database Licence, with public registers used for verification — never from a commercial directory.
Every region, ranked
| 1. New South Wales | 18,810 venues · 14,876 eat, 3,934 stay · 1,903 towns · 29% of New Zealand · 21% accommodation |
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| 2. Victoria | 16,729 venues · 14,123 eat, 2,606 stay · 1,221 towns · 26% of New Zealand · 16% accommodation |
| 3. Queensland | 11,872 venues · 8,940 eat, 2,932 stay · 1,280 towns · 18% of New Zealand · 25% accommodation |
| 4. Western Australia | 5,545 venues · 4,228 eat, 1,317 stay · 732 towns · 9% of New Zealand · 24% accommodation |
| 5. South Australia | 4,379 venues · 3,255 eat, 1,124 stay · 653 towns · 7% of New Zealand · 26% accommodation |
| 6. Tasmania | 1,957 venues · 1,376 eat, 581 stay · 263 towns · 3% of New Zealand · 30% accommodation |
| 7. Australian Capital Territory | 1,159 venues · 1,085 eat, 74 stay · 94 towns · 2% of New Zealand · 6% accommodation |
| 8. Northern Territory | 592 venues · 364 eat, 228 stay · 123 towns · 1% of New Zealand · 39% accommodation |
Two caveats worth stating before you read anything into these numbers. The first is that this counts venues, not seats or beds or turnover — a region of small cafés will out-count a region of large hotels. The second is that coverage depends on what has been mapped: OpenStreetMap is community-maintained, so a well-mapped town looks busier than an identically-sized town nobody has surveyed. Where a figure looks wrong to someone who knows the place, the source data is almost always the reason, and it is fixable — OpenStreetMap takes corrections from anyone.