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Te Upoko o te Ika a Māui. 8 districts and cities

Claude training in Wellington region

Wellington’s public and professional services sit alongside screen work and food production in Kāpiti and Wairarapa. Claude is useful where a regional decision depends on reading long plans and preserving the evidence behind a draft.1,3

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More of Wellington’s workers are desk-based than across New Zealand.

71.1% in Wellington, 63.6% across New Zealand: about 209,000 people.

Wellington

New Zealand

Role typeWellingtonNZ
Desk-based71.1%63.6%
People-facing8.7%9.0%
Hands-on20.2%27.4%
Desk-based: managers, professionals, clerical and sales workers, roles where AI assistance is most applicable. Broad proxy, not measured adoption or a forecast. Stats NZ, 2023 Census; ILO, 2025.
Residents
521,0002023 Census
Business locations
62,418Feb 2025, +4.5% since 2020
Employees (jobs here)
281,690at local businesses, Feb 2025
Towns with a page
141,000+ residents
Council areas
8districts and cities

What AI means for work in Wellington

Wellington ranks 1 of 16 regions for the share of desk-based roles. Findings from Stats NZ data, and what each means for Claude training.

How Wellington works: desk-based, hands-on and people-facing roles

71.1% of employed residents in Wellington work in desk-based roles, against 63.6% across New Zealand. Professionals stand out: 35.3% of employed residents here, against 26.8% nationally. That is a lot of reading and writing work. Projects and long-document skills pay back across most of the workforce, so a foundations session for everyone, then a rollout plan, is the usual path.

Employed residents by occupation group, Wellington and New Zealand, 2023 Census
Occupation groupChartWellingtonNZ
Managers 17.3% 18.3%
Professionals 35.3% 26.8%
Technicians and trades workers 10.4% 12.5%
Community and personal service workers 8.7% 9.0%
Clerical and administrative workers 11.5% 10.8%
Sales workers 7.0% 7.8%
Machinery operators and drivers 3.7% 5.9%
Labourers 6.1% 9.0%

Desk-based roles: managers, professionals, clerical and administrative workers, and sales workers (ANZSCO major groups). These are roles where AI assistance is most applicable. This broad proxy is not measured adoption or a forecast of job change. People-facing: community and personal service workers (care, hospitality service, sport, police and similar). Hands-on: technicians and trades, machinery operators and drivers, labourers.

Source: Stats NZ, 2023 Census, usually resident employed people; ILO, Generative AI and jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposure (2025).

Public administration is 2.8 times as common in Wellington as across New Zealand

281,656 paid jobs at business locations in Wellington in February 2025. The largest employer is public administration, with 17.8% of jobs (New Zealand: 6.4%).

Share of paid jobs by industry, Wellington and New Zealand, February 2025
IndustryChartWellingtonNZ×
Public administration 17.8% 6.4% 2.8×
Health and social care 11.9% 12.0% 1.0×
Professional services 11.0% 8.3% 1.3×
Education 9.3% 8.5% 1.1×
Retail 7.7% 9.3% 0.8×
Hospitality 6.8% 7.2% 0.9×
Construction 6.6% 8.2% 0.8×
Manufacturing 4.4% 9.4% 0.5×

Share of paid employees at business locations in the area, by ANZSIC06 industry division. × is the local share divided by the national share.

Source: Stats NZ, Business Demography Statistics, February 2020 and 2025.

Wellington added 2,703 business locations from 2020 to 2025, slower than New Zealand

Business locations went from 59,715 to 62,418 (+4.5%; New Zealand +9.6%). Employees went from 270,890 to 281,690 (+4.0%; New Zealand +5.0%). The biggest gain in jobs was in public administration (+9,724), the biggest fall in admin and support services (−2,436).

Business locations
59,71562,418 in 2025, from 2020
+4.5% NZ +9.6%
Employees (jobs here)
270,890281,690 in 2025, from 2020
+4.0% NZ +5.0%
Change in employees by industry in Wellington, February 2020 to February 2025
IndustryChart20202025Change
Public administration 40,29650,020+9,724
Health and social care 29,59033,440+3,850
Education 24,87726,163+1,286
Admin and support services 13,27710,841−2,436
Professional services 32,86431,108−1,756
Manufacturing 13,15412,317−837

Geographic units (business locations) and paid employees, February of each year. Small counts are randomly rounded by Stats NZ, so small changes can be noise.

Source: Stats NZ, Business Demography Statistics, February 2020 and 2025.

Remote work in Wellington is close to the national rate

Both on-site and remote sessions work. Most teams start with a half-day on-site.

19.0%

Mainly worked from home, census day 2023

New Zealand 17.7%

92.9%

Households with internet access

New Zealand 90.5%

Main means of travel to work on census day, and access to the internet in occupied private dwellings.

Source: Stats NZ, 2023 Census, usually resident employed people.

Council areas in Wellington, compared

Share of employed residents in desk-based roles, by district

Desk-based share by district, Wellington
District or cityChartShareNZ
Wellington City 77.0% 63.6%
South Wairarapa District 67.8% 63.6%
Kapiti Coast District 67.8% 63.6%
Lower Hutt City 67.8% 63.6%
Upper Hutt City 67.1% 63.6%
Porirua City 66.7% 63.6%
Carterton District 63.5% 63.6%
Masterton District 58.8% 63.6%

Desk-based roles: managers, professionals, clerical and administrative workers, and sales workers (ANZSCO major groups). These are roles where AI assistance is most applicable. This broad proxy is not measured adoption or a forecast of job change.

Source: Stats NZ, 2023 Census, usually resident employed people.

Also partly in Wellington: Tararua District.

Towns and cities in Wellington

Each has its own page and local brief. Largest first, by residents at the 2023 Census.

Towns in Wellington
TownResidentsDesk-based Chart Business locationsSince 2020
Wellington 201,700 77.0% 29,070 −0.1%
Lower Hutt 106,500 67.7% 11,361 +5.4%
Porirua 58,100 66.4% 4,833 +11.5%
Upper Hutt 42,900 66.9% 3,237 +10.2%
Paraparaumu 28,900 67.6% 3,150 +8.9%
Masterton 21,600 56.0% 2,124 +10.6%
Waikanae 13,000 69.5% 1,269 +24.8%
Carterton 5,860 60.0% 474 +19.7%
Ōtaki 5,020 62.8% 540 +22.4%
Featherston 2,790 62.6% 204 +11.5%
Greytown 2,770 70.0% 408 +20.4%
Ōtaki Beach 2,150 63.3% 141 +17.5%
Martinborough 1,880 69.2% 375 −3.1%
Paekākāriki 1,670 72.1% 159 −1.9%
New Zealand4,993,92363.6%654,435+9.6%

Claude for Wellington’s largest industries

A service team can keep approved policy or project papers in a Claude Project, compare versions and label what remains interpretive. That approach also suits work shared between the capital and the region’s other centres.1

Government and public administration

Compare a draft briefing with the policy passages it claims to summarise, then list unsupported statements for the document owner.1,6

Food and fibre

Set two approved supply or production reports side by side and annotate differences before a Wairarapa or Kāpiti team acts on them.3

About Wellington

Wellington combines a capital-centred public and professional services economy with distinct food and fibre areas in Kāpiti and Wairarapa. Infometrics estimates for 2024 put public administration and safety at 14.3% of regional employment, professional, scientific and technical services at 13.7%, and health care and social assistance at 10.3%; high-value services contributed 43% of regional GDP. Screen, creative and digital activity, science and engineering, tourism, and food and fibre are the Wellington Regional Economic Development Plan’s focus sectors. Food and fibre contributed $2 billion to regional GDP and employed 13,347 people in 2023, with Kāpiti and Wairarapa among the sub-regions responsible for most regional production. Te Matarau a Māui provides Māori-led economic development support across Te Ūpoko o Te Ika.1,2,3,4

Claude ideas grounded in Wellington

Government and public administration

  • Extract decision points from long strategy PDFs

    A regional policy adviser can use a Claude Project to review a set of strategy and consultation PDFs, extract recurring commitments, and prepare a source-linked comparison. The adviser checks each excerpt against the original documents before sharing it.2

    Why here: The regional plan has 31 initiatives and requires delivery with councils, iwi and central government across the Wairarapa-Wellington-Horowhenua area.

    • Claude.ai Projects
    • long documents and PDFs

  • Prototype a public-facing option comparison

    A service designer can use Artifacts to turn reviewed policy text into a simple interactive comparison of options and trade-offs. Subject matter experts check the content and accessibility before the prototype is used with the public.11

    Why here: Greater Wellington’s regional data dashboard publishes economy and population material for Wellington’s local authorities, giving regional teams a real evidence base to organise for readers.

    • Artifacts
    • Claude.ai Projects

  • Review consultation themes across partner submissions

    A governance team can compare a set of approved submissions with Claude’s long-document support and produce a draft theme matrix. Staff preserve the original wording and check that minority views are represented accurately.2,6

    Why here: Regional economic oversight brings councils, iwi and central government together, so a traceable comparison of partner feedback can support the work without replacing decision-makers.

    • long documents and PDFs
    • research

Screen, creative and digital production

  • Trace a creative brief through long production documents

    A producer can use Claude’s long-document support to compare approved briefs, revision notes and delivery requirements, then draft a change summary with references to the source files. The producer confirms that every change is captured before it reaches the crew.17

    Why here: Wellington has an established post-production and visual-effects base, with Park Road Post Production and Wētā FX named in the local screen directory.

    • long documents and PDFs
    • Claude.ai Projects

  • Show alternate treatments in a reviewable Artifacts prototype

    A creative lead can use Artifacts to sketch a small interactive reference that compares approved design treatments or sequence notes. The team uses it as a review aid and checks rights, accuracy and final creative decisions separately.17

    Why here: Wellington’s screen directory includes companies working across concept design, manufacture, animation and post-production, so creative reviews can draw on distinct stages of a local production chain.

    • Artifacts
    • Claude.ai Projects

  • Use Claude Code to inspect a game build utility

    A developer can ask Claude Code to explain an unfamiliar build script, identify likely failure points and suggest a focused change. The developer reviews the patch, runs the studio’s normal checks and decides whether to merge it.2

    Why here: The Wellington Regional Economic Development Plan explicitly includes screen, creative and digital activity, including gaming, as a regional focus sector.

    • Claude Code for developers

Local context

  • CentrePort Wellington. The port handles cargo and links regional freight to road, rail and international shipping; its logistics footprint includes Waingawa in Wairarapa.18
  • Wētā Workshop and the Wellington screen precinct. The Screen Wellington directory lists local production, visual-effects, post-production and studio businesses, including Wētā Workshop and Park Road Post Production.17
  • Te Papa Tongarewa. Te Papa hires meeting and conference spaces and works with local iwi on its venue approach.19
  • Stats NZ recorded a Wellington regional usually resident population of 520,971 in the 2023 Census, up 2.8% since 2018.10
  • Services account for 85% of regional employment in the 2024 profile; high-value services make up 45.4%, while primary industries make up 1.4% overall and a larger share in Wairarapa.1
  • Kāpiti and Wairarapa have different food and fibre profiles: the plan describes Kāpiti horticulture and high-value food manufacturing, and Wairarapa meat, viticulture, dairy and forestry.3
  • Te Matarau a Māui’s regional business network works with Te Awe, Māori in Business Wairarapa and the Ngāti Toa Business Hub in Porirua on support, mentoring and capability building.12
  • Greater Wellington says regional economic development oversight sits with the Wellington Regional Leadership Committee and WellingtonNZ is the primary delivery agency.6

Training venues in and near Wellington

Most training happens at your own workplace. For a public workshop day or an off-site session, these places hire out rooms.

  • Shed 6, Room 221

    145 people, largest layout

    Flat-floor room with movable soundproof walls; theatre and classroom layouts are listed.

    • theatre seating layout
    • classroom seating layout
    • movable soundproof walls

  • Te Papa Venues20

    180 people, largest layout

    Day-delegate package is offered for meetings, workshops and conferences, subject to availability.

    • Wi-Fi
    • whiteboard
    • flip chart
    • lectern
    • fixed data projector and screen in the standard meeting room

    55 Cable Street, Wellington

  • The Woolshed, Belmont Regional Park22

    30 people, largest layout

    Greater Wellington lists seating for 30 and a meeting space available for hire.

    • whiteboard and markers
    • kitchenette
    • heater
    • limited Wi-Fi

From the venues’ own public listings. No booking or relationship is implied.

A Wellington workshop could practise an annotated brief using permitted documents from one regional workflow, with citations checked by the responsible team.1,3

Public Claude workshops in Wellington

Nothing is scheduled in Wellington yet. We plan public Claude days where enough people ask for one, so register below and we will email you when one is set. Private team sessions can be booked any time.

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Wellington Panorama View
Wellington Panorama View by Ulrich Lange, Bochum, Germany, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Claude training in Wellington: questions

Can a public sector team use its own policy papers?

Only approved material should enter the exercise; a reviewer then checks every citation and interpretation.1,6

Is this relevant outside central Wellington?

Yes. Kāpiti and Wairarapa food and fibre work calls for its own source documents and local review.3

Could a screen team compare production documents?

A permitted project brief and change note can be compared, with confidential details removed first.2,17

Train your team in Wellington

  1. You tell us about the teamSize, where you are, the documents people work with, and what you would like to change.
  2. We suggest a course and formatBy email, with a few questions about the tasks and documents you want to train on.
  3. People practise on real workOn-site or remote. Everyone leaves with Claude set up for tasks they do every week.
  • In person
  • Remote
  • Half-day workshop
  • Full-day workshop
  • Team rollout

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Sources

Local research checked 29 September 2026. Population and business figures come from Stats NZ.