[1] 43.7% of New Zealand residents who declared their ethnicity as I-Kiribati live in the Auckland Region.
The Kiribati community is especially prominent in the country town of Warkworth, where Gilbertese is the second most spoken language.
Smaller I-Kiribati communities exist in the Waikato region and in Wellington.
[4][5][6] Clendon Park in South Auckland is home to the Kiribati Uniting Church NZ.
[7] Kiribati Language Week is a yearly event organised by the Ministry for Pacific Peoples.