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Aim  This study examines the relationship between physical, socio‐economic and social environments and alcohol consumption and drunkenness among a general population sample of drinkers aged 12–17 years.

Design, setting, participants and measures  The study was conducted in Auckland, New Zealand. The design comprised two components: (i) environmental measures including alcohol outlet density, locality‐based measure of willingness to sell alcohol (derived from purchase surveys of outlets) and a locality‐based neighbourhood deprivation measure calculated routinely in New Zealand (known as NZDEP); and (ii) the second component was a random telephone survey to collect individual‐level information from respondents aged 12–17 years including ethnicity, frequency of alcohol supplied socially (by parents, friends and others), young person's income; frequency of exposure to alcohol …