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Manawatū-Whanganui (Manawatū-Whanganui). Council area

Copilot training in Tararua District

Tararua District links dispersed farms with dairy manufacturing at Pahiatua. Copilot exercises can put the location, file owner, next step and reviewer into each handover.4,5,14

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56.6% of Tararua District’s employed residents are in desk-based roles.

Role typeTararua DistrictNZDiff (pts)
Desk-based 56.6% 63.6% −7.0
People-facing 8.1% 9.0% −0.9
Hands-on 35.3% 27.4% +7.9
Employed residents9,1022,622,534

About 5,150 people in desk-based roles. 2023 Census, counted where people live.

Rows 2 to 4: ANZSCO major groups 1, 2, 5, 6 / 4 / 3, 7, 8. Stats NZ 2023 Census, employed residents. Proxy per ILO 2025; not a forecast.
Residents
18,7002023 Census
Business locations
2,772Feb 2025, −0.3% since 2020
Employees (jobs here)
5,720at local businesses, Feb 2025
Towns with a page
31,000+ residents

What AI means for work in Tararua District

4 findings from Stats NZ data for Tararua District, and what each means for Microsoft Copilot training.

Workforce by occupation group, Tararua District against New Zealand

56.6% of employed residents in Tararua District work in desk-based roles, against 63.6% across New Zealand. The difference is mostly labourers: 16.0% of employed residents here, against 9.0% nationally. Size the licences to the desk-based roles rather than headcount. A pilot with office, scheduling and management staff shows value before you pay for everyone.

Employed residents by occupation group, Tararua District and New Zealand, 2023 Census
Occupation groupChartPeopleTararua DistrictNZ
Managers 2,322 25.5% 18.3%
Professionals 1,485 16.3% 26.8%
Technicians and trades workers 1,032 11.3% 12.5%
Community and personal service workers 741 8.1% 9.0%
Clerical and administrative workers 777 8.5% 10.8%
Sales workers 570 6.3% 7.8%
Machinery operators and drivers 726 8.0% 5.9%
Labourers 1,455 16.0% 9.0%

Desk-based = ANZSCO major groups 1, 2, 5 and 6 (managers, professionals, clerical and administrative, sales): roles where AI assistance is most applicable. Broad proxy informed by ILO 2025; not measured adoption or an employment forecast. People-facing = major group 4. Hands-on = major groups 3, 7 and 8.

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

Farming, forestry, fishing: 28.6% of local jobs, 5.9× the national share

Top employer: farming, forestry, fishing, 1,637 jobs (28.6%). Heat cells mark industries over-represented against New Zealand. Plan Copilot use cases by department in the largest employers first.

Share of paid jobs by industry, Tararua District and New Zealand, February 2025
IndustryChartJobsShareNZ×
Farming, forestry, fishing 1,637 28.6% 4.8% 5.9×
Manufacturing 959 16.7% 9.4% 1.8×
Education 615 10.7% 8.5% 1.3×
Retail 505 8.8% 9.3% 0.9×
Health and social care 313 5.5% 12.0% 0.5×
Hospitality 280 4.9% 7.2% 0.7×
Construction 230 4.0% 8.2% 0.5×
Other services 210 3.7% 3.5% 1.1×
Transport and warehousing 199 3.5% 4.2% 0.8×
Public administration 195 3.4% 6.4% 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.

Business locations −0.3% and employees −5.3%, 2020 to 2025

Paid employees 6,040 (2020) to 5,720 (2025), −5.3% against +5.0% nationally. Business locations 2,781 to 2,772. Largest job gain: education (+78). Largest loss: farming, forestry, fishing (−151).

Business locations
2,7812,772 in 2025, from 2020
−0.3% NZ +9.6%
Employees (jobs here)
6,0405,720 in 2025, from 2020
−5.3% NZ +5.0%
Change in employees by industry in Tararua District, February 2020 to February 2025
IndustryChart20202025Change
Education 537615+78
Construction 163230+67
Other services 164210+46
Farming, forestry, fishing 1,7881,637−151
Health and social care 448313−135
Manufacturing 1,050959−91

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 readiness: work at home and household internet

Remote sessions fit how people here already work, and live training over Teams reaches staff across sites.

25.0%

Mainly worked from home, census day 2023

New Zealand 17.7%

84.1%

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.

Towns in Tararua District

Each town has its own page and brief. Largest first.

Towns in Tararua District
TownResidentsDesk-based Chart Business locationsSince 2020
Dannevirke 5,580 44.8% 459 −1.9%
Pahiatua 2,840 52.6% 276 +1.1%
Woodville 1,660 48.1% 99 +3.1%
New Zealand4,993,92363.6%654,435+9.6%

Where Microsoft Copilot helps first in Tararua District

Council planning distinguishes current operations from proposed growth areas. A Microsoft 365 worksheet can keep that status visible before a Teams note becomes a Word briefing.4,14

Farming

Use a sample Excel seasonal task register to draft a Word crew note, then ask the farm owner to verify priorities.4,6

Dairy manufacturing

Summarise an approved Teams maintenance handover into open actions, each with a Pahiatua site reviewer.5

A workshop can trace a permitted record from SharePoint into a checked Outlook update for a rural or plant team.4,5

Public Microsoft Copilot workshops in Manawatū-Whanganui

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Dannevirke railway station about 1900
Dannevirke railway station about 1900 by Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain.

Microsoft Copilot training in Tararua District: questions

Can a farm office bring an Excel staff schedule?

Use an approved or synthetic workbook and confirm who checks the resulting task list.4,6

Who verifies a plant handover?

The site’s responsible staff should compare the draft with the approved production and maintenance records.5

Should proposed industrial land appear as an existing workplace?

No; mark Plan Change A areas as proposals in the file and in any generated summary.14

Train your team in Tararua District

  1. ScopeHeadcount, sites, Microsoft 365 plan and licences, and the teams you want to start with.
  2. PlanWe propose a course, a pilot group and a format, and agree the files and meetings to use.
  3. TrainOn-site or over Teams, in Outlook, Word, Excel and Teams, with your own work.
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  • Half-day workshop
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  • Team rollout

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Sources

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