Kiribati New Zealanders

Kiribati New Zealanders refers to New Zealand citizens or permanent residents who are fully or partially of I-Kiribati descent. According to the 2018 census, 3,225 New Zealanders declared their ethnicity as Kiribati.

Demographics
I-Kiribati people are classified as a subset of Pasifika New Zealanders under the Ethnicity New Zealand Standard Classification by Stats NZ Tatauranga Aotearoa. According to the 2006 Census, there were 1,116 Kiribati New Zealanders in New Zealand, which has tripled to 3,225 in the 2018 Census.

As of 2018, only 41.3% of Kiribati New Zealanders were born in New Zealand. 58.7% were born overseas, most of them in Kiribati, with smaller groups of I-Kiribati immigrants born in Australia, Tuvalu and the United States.

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.

Organisations
New Zealand's Kiribati associations include the nationwide New Zealand Kiribati National Council, the Warkworth-based Kiribati Aotearoa Diaspora Directorate and the Otago Kiribati Islands Students' Association in Dunedin.

Clendon Park in South Auckland is home to the Kiribati Uniting Church NZ.

Kiribati Language Week is a yearly event organised by the Ministry for Pacific Peoples.