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Copilot training in New Plymouth District

New Plymouth District teams may coordinate jobs between smaller settlements, the city and Port Taranaki. A Copilot worksheet can keep location, document owner and review step attached to each update.1,2,3,4,5

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61.2% of New Plymouth District’s employed residents are in desk-based roles.

Role typeNew Plymouth DistrictNZDiff (pts)
Desk-based 61.2% 63.6% −2.5
People-facing 9.3% 9.0% +0.3
Hands-on 29.6% 27.4% +2.2
Employed residents44,4302,622,534

About 27,200 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
87,0002023 Census
Business locations
10,680Feb 2025, +7.6% since 2020
Employees (jobs here)
38,005at local businesses, Feb 2025
Towns with a page
41,000+ residents

What AI means for work in New Plymouth District

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

Workforce by occupation group, New Plymouth District against New Zealand

61.2% of employed residents in New Plymouth District work in desk-based roles, against 63.6% across New Zealand. Desk-based roles live in Outlook, Teams, Word and Excel, which is where Copilot works. A broad rollout has plenty of people to benefit: plan the pilot group and the champions first.

Employed residents by occupation group, New Plymouth District and New Zealand, 2023 Census
Occupation groupChartPeopleNew Plymouth DistrictNZ
Managers 7,833 17.6% 18.3%
Professionals 11,247 25.3% 26.8%
Technicians and trades workers 6,270 14.1% 12.5%
Community and personal service workers 4,113 9.3% 9.0%
Clerical and administrative workers 4,854 10.9% 10.8%
Sales workers 3,243 7.3% 7.8%
Machinery operators and drivers 2,592 5.8% 5.9%
Labourers 4,266 9.6% 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).

Mining: 2.6% of local jobs, 9.4× the national share

Top employer: health and social care, 5,879 jobs (15.4%). 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, New Plymouth District and New Zealand, February 2025
IndustryChartJobsShareNZ×
Health and social care 5,879 15.4% 12.0% 1.3×
Manufacturing 3,962 10.4% 9.4% 1.1×
Retail 3,543 9.3% 9.3% 1.0×
Construction 3,343 8.8% 8.2% 1.1×
Hospitality 3,156 8.3% 7.2% 1.1×
Education 3,052 8.0% 8.5% 0.9×
Professional services 2,446 6.4% 8.3% 0.8×
Public administration 1,649 4.3% 6.4% 0.7×
Other services 1,607 4.2% 3.5% 1.2×
Transport and warehousing 1,548 4.1% 4.2% 1.0×

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 +7.6% and employees −0.1%, 2020 to 2025

Paid employees 38,040 (2020) to 38,005 (2025), −0.1% against +5.0% nationally. Business locations 9,924 to 10,680. Largest job gain: health and social care (+1,002). Largest loss: admin and support services (−624).

Business locations
9,92410,680 in 2025, from 2020
+7.6% NZ +9.6%
Employees (jobs here)
38,04038,005 in 2025, from 2020
−0.1% NZ +5.0%
Change in employees by industry in New Plymouth District, February 2020 to February 2025
IndustryChart20202025Change
Health and social care 4,8775,879+1,002
Public administration 1,3231,649+326
Finance and insurance 7891,107+318
Admin and support services 1,9541,330−624
Construction 3,6913,343−348
Manufacturing 4,2463,962−284

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

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

16.8%

Mainly worked from home, census day 2023

New Zealand 17.7%

89.8%

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 New Plymouth District

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

Towns in New Plymouth District
TownResidentsDesk-based Chart Business locationsSince 2020
New Plymouth 58,000 62.0% 6,795 +6.5%
Waitara 7,510 47.0% 333 +0.0%
Inglewood 3,800 56.5% 294 +18.1%
Ōakura (New Plymouth District) 1,760 73.4% 273 +21.3%
New Zealand4,993,92363.6%654,435+9.6%

Where Microsoft Copilot helps first in New Plymouth District

District-wide service and project work produces many versions of plans and logs. Before drafting, participants can agree which SharePoint copy is current.1,2,3,4,5

Health services

Draft a Word team note from an approved Teams discussion, leaving clinical decisions for the service owner.3,5

Port and marine logistics

Move exceptions from an Excel port register into a Teams action list with one owner per item.4

A district Copilot session could map a SharePoint source, Excel register and Word handover, then assign reviewers by site.1,2,3,4,5

Public Microsoft Copilot workshops in Taranaki

There is no public Copilot workshop in Taranaki on the calendar yet. Register interest below and we will tell you when one is scheduled. Organisations can book private training for their own staff at any time.

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Microsoft Copilot training in New Plymouth District: questions

How could Taranaki Base Hospital service notices move through Word and Outlook?

Begin with a public service description in Word; its owner checks the wording before an Outlook update goes to the intended audience.5

Could Port Taranaki cargo categories guide an Excel handover?

A sample Excel cargo table could feed a Word update, with the categories and totals reconciled against the source workbook.4

How should port data be labelled in a practice exercise?

Mark fictional movements as examples and distinguish them from Port Taranaki’s published cargo categories.4

Train your team in New Plymouth 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.
  • 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.