A point-in-time ‘snapshot’ of all vehicles currently
registered in New Zealand. The data relates to currently-registered vehicles as
recorded on the Motor Vehicle Register (MVR).
We update it monthly, so it's accurate up to the end of the
previous month.
Download
this data as zipped CSV files
Registration is the process where we add a vehicle’s details
to the MVR and issue its number plates. It is not the same thing as vehicle
licensing, also called ‘rego’.
To give you a quick overview of the data, see the charts in
the ‘Attributes’ section below. These will give you information about each of
the attributes (variables) in the dataset.
Each chart is specific to a variable, and shows all data
(without any filters applied).
Motor
Vehicle Register data - field descriptions
Data reuse caveats: as per license.
We’ve taken reasonable care in compiling this information,
and provide it on an ‘as is, where is’ basis. We are not liable for any action
taken on the basis of the information. For further information see the Waka
Kotahi website, as well as the terms of the CC-BY 4.0 International license
under which we publish this data.
CC-BY 4.0
International licence details
Variables in the dataset are formatted for analytical use.
This can result in attribute charts that may not appear meaningful, and are not
suitable for broader analysis or use. In addition, some variables are not
mutually exclusive and should not be considered in isolation. As such, these
charts should not be taken and used directly as analysis of the overall data.
Data quality statement: this data relates to vehicles,
not people.
We have included some information about vehicle registered
owners live. This is based on the most recent information we have about their
physical address. To make sure it isn’t possible to identify a person in the
data, we have provided this at Territorial Authority (TA) level. A TA is a
broad geographical area defined under the Local Government Act 2002 as a city
council or district council. There are 67 TAs consisting of 12 city councils,
53 districts, Auckland Council and Chatham Island Council.
We haven’t included vehicles that belong to people with a
confidential listing.
We have restricted the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN)
to the first 11 characters – these are generic and don’t identify specific
vehicles.
Data quality caveats: many of the fields in the (MVR)
are free text fields, which means there may be spelling mistakes and other
human errors.
We have algorithmically cleaned the data to correct
identified errors (particularly with respect to a vehicle’s make and model).
However, due to the large number of vehicles on the Register we may not have
corrected some information.
Additionally, some variables may be subject to differences
in how people have recorded details – for example, manufacturers release a
variety of sub-models and these may not be referred to, or put into the system,
in the same way.
We have made our cleaning code open source.Vehicle
make and model cleansing code (GitHub)
