Relationship With Wellington
Many Kapiti Coast District residents work in Wellington. Commuters to the four cities of Wellington make up 36% of the workforce of the Kapiti Urban Area (Paraparaumu, Waikanae, Paekakariki) and 12% of the workforce of Otaki. One of Wellington's two main commuter rail links, the Kapiti Line, terminates in Waikanae. There are also commuter bus services.
State Highway One connects the Kapiti Coast to Wellington. The road is a narrow, coastal highway that is highly congested and has been subject to occasional closure due to land slides. The Transmission Gully Motorway has long been mooted both as a commuter route and an alternative access to the capital in case of a civil defence emergency. Preliminary work around this project has been completed but full funding as not yet been secured.
The population of the district has grown rapidly since the 1980s, fueled in large part by Wellingtonians moving to the coast to retire. More Kapiti Coasters are over the retirement age than in any other district or city in the country. 23.3% of the district's population is over 65 compared with 9.4% in the four cities of Wellington and 12.1% of New Zealand as a whole. The main reason for this, is that the area is the retirement capital for the Wellington Region.
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