New Zealand by region
89,375 venues across 13 regions and 6,205 named towns and suburbs.
New Zealand's venues are not spread evenly. Ontario alone holds 37% of everything we map, and the top three regions — Ontario, Québec and British Columbia — account for 72% between them. The three smallest — Yukon (198), Northwest Territories (132) and Nunavut (85) — hold 0% between them.
The ratio of eating places to accommodation is the number that most distinguishes one region from another. Nationally it runs 81% eat to 19% stay. Prince Edward Island is the most accommodation-heavy region of any size at 32%, while Ontario is the least at 8% — 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. Ontario | 33,429 venues · 30,715 eat, 2,714 stay · 1,556 towns · 37% of New Zealand · 8% accommodation |
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| 2. Québec | 16,283 venues · 13,243 eat, 3,040 stay · 1,557 towns · 18% of New Zealand · 19% accommodation |
| 3. British Columbia | 14,843 venues · 12,351 eat, 2,492 stay · 799 towns · 17% of New Zealand · 17% accommodation |
| 4. Alberta | 9,209 venues · 7,784 eat, 1,425 stay · 721 towns · 10% of New Zealand · 15% accommodation |
| 5. Nova Scotia | 2,244 venues · 1,769 eat, 475 stay · 416 towns · 3% of New Zealand · 21% accommodation |
| 6. Saskatchewan | 2,025 venues · 1,575 eat, 450 stay · 237 towns · 2% of New Zealand · 22% accommodation |
| 7. Manitoba | 2,007 venues · 1,643 eat, 364 stay · 262 towns · 2% of New Zealand · 18% accommodation |
| 8. New Brunswick | 1,696 venues · 1,253 eat, 443 stay · 255 towns · 2% of New Zealand · 26% accommodation |
| 9. Newfoundland and Labrador | 1,060 venues · 756 eat, 304 stay · 217 towns · 1% of New Zealand · 29% accommodation |
| 10. Prince Edward Island | 517 venues · 352 eat, 165 stay · 104 towns · 1% of New Zealand · 32% accommodation |
| 11. Yukon | 198 venues · 88 eat, 110 stay · 37 towns · 0% of New Zealand · 56% accommodation |
| 12. Northwest Territories | 132 venues · 73 eat, 59 stay · 25 towns · 0% of New Zealand · 45% accommodation |
| 13. Nunavut | 85 venues · 23 eat, 62 stay · 19 towns · 0% of New Zealand · 73% 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.