Gaming machine profits (GMP dashboard)
Dashboard file showing current quarter, and historic data for the numbers of electronic gaming machines (EGMs)and licenced premises in each council area, reported since 2015.
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Last updated: 30 March 2025
Gaming Machine Profits (GMP) Dashboard (data.govt.nz website PowerBI and machine-readable formats)
A new Power BI version of the Quarterly GMP dashboard is now available through data.govt.nz. This dashboard has now prepaced the previous Excel dashboard: GMP Quarterly Dashboard (data.govt.nz)
The PowerBI dashboard contains several reports. Explanations to help you understand the information, and what it shows, are provided below
The dashboard shows the numbers of approved gaming machines licensed to operate at approved venues as at the last day of the current quarter.
This is a 'snapshot' of the current state of affairs at a point in time. It is not conclusive and should be read in the context of the broader dataset.
Contact us if you want up to date information about machine numbers in a district.
Notes and Corrections
December 2024 - Rolling up of Central Hawke's Bay District to Hastings District
During the December 2024 quarter, a venue in the Central Hawkes Bay District surrendered its venue licence and was no longer licenced to operate class 4 gaming machines as at the end of the quarter. This dropped the number of venues in the Central Hawke's Bay District to one. As with similar scenarios (Kaikoura District, Stratford District) in the past, we have combined/rolled up this Territorial Authority with Hastings District, as not to expose venue-level GMP of this single venue, as per departmental policy that we do not publish venue-level GMP. We have chosen to combine Central Hawke's Bay District with Hastings District due to the geographic proximity of the venues and the deprivation levels of the venues being relatively similar.
GMP trends
General insights
Quarterly GMP data for January to March 2025 shows a 6.96% decrease when compared to the previous quarter — dropping from $257,489,337 to $239,559,979. This aligns with a commonly observed trend where we observe a dip in the March GMP. (The only time this was not the case was the December 2021 to March 2022 quarters).
The current quarter’s GMP is the 3rd highest March GMP since 2015 when began tracking these figures. The highest was during the March 2023 quarter.
The rolling 12-month total for GMP, the year ending March 2025, decreased slightly (0.08%), compared to the previous 12 months. However, total GMP for the 12-months to March 2025 remains at over one billion dollars.
The number of venues and EGMs have been trending down over time. The number of venues operating at the end of the March 2025 quarter has decreased from the end of December 2024, dropping from 977 to 967. The number of Electronic Gaming Machines (EGMs) also decreased, from 13,985 to 13,812.
GMP per EGM has been trending both up and down. Mirroring GMP, GMP per EGM trends up between the low of March to the height of September and then trends back down again. It has yet to trend as high as it was in September 2023, so overall GMP per EGM is declining over time.
The reason that GMP per EGM is declining could be due to:
- There are less players playing EGMs
- Players are betting less money per game
- There are a similar number of players betting similar amounts of money per game but playing for less time.
- A contributing factor may also be that players are engaging in other forms of gambling that are not EGM based.
Regional insights
Porirua City and Auckland City remain the top two highest Territorial Authorities (TA) for GMP per EGM.
Notable changes since last quarter include:
- Queenstown-Lakes District moved up from 5th to 3rd
- Horowhenua District moved down to 5th from 4th
- Tauranga District is now 4th, after not being in the top 5 last quarter after a slight increase in GMP per EGM (1.1%). Hastings District (December 2024 incl. Central Hawke’s Bay) dropped to 8th due to a 9% decrease in GMP per EGM from last quarter.
For more detail on these numbers and trends, please see our GMP Dashboard.
Interpreting the data
There are several reports within the PowerBI version (human readable) of the GMP dashboard:
- Class 4 Key Statistics - Key stats about the current quarter, filterable by location
- Gaming Machine Statistics - Dynamic dashboard that allows you to select financial information you want to see based on time and location.
- Venues and EGMs - Dynamic dashboard that allows you to select venue and EGM information you want to see based on time and location.
- In Detail – Tables – Quarterly and yearly tables showing financial and venue/EGM information and the delta between each quarter/year that you want to see based on time and location.
- Quarterly GMP, Venues and EGMs – A table showing a single quarter of data, showing the percentage of total GMP, EGMs and venues for the selected location(s) and quarter.
- Dataset - Data that sits behind all the dynamic tables and dashboards.
- Current Quarter Venues – A list of venues licenced at the end of the quarter.
Two additional sheets provide help for navigating and reading the data:
- Contents and directions – instructions for how to navigate the dashboard and view the information you need. It covers how to:
- Navigate between pages
- Use filters/slicers to manipulate different views
- Uncover detail behind the graphs
- Troubleshoot
- Notes and Caveats to the Data – details what is, and is not, included in the data.
