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Hauraki Plains
The Hauraki Plains are a geographical area located in the northern North Island of New Zealand, at the lower (northern) end of the Thames Valley. They are located 75 kilometres south-east of Auckland, at the foot of the Coromandel Peninsula and occupy the southern portion of a rift valley bounded on the north-west by the Hunua Ranges, to the east by the Coromandel and Kaimai ranges and to the west by a series of undulating hills which separate the plains from the much larger plains of the Waikato River.
The Plains are not presently a single administrative area, though a Hauraki Plains County Council existed from 1920 to 1989 and a statistical Area Unit remains. Broadly, the northern and southern parts of the Hauraki Plains are administered by the Hauraki District and the Matamata-Piako District respectively.
The alluvial plains have been built up by sediment deposited by the Piako and Waihou rivers, which flow north to reach the sea at the Firth of Thames, and earlier by the ancestral Waikato River. The resulting land is flat, peat-heavy, and partly swampy, which has been converted into excellent land for dairy farming.
Economically, the dairy farming is the leading primary industry, supported by other grassland farming. More recently, tourism in the Hauraki Plains region has been growing and the Hauraki Rail Trail, part of the New Zealand Cycle Trail, has been constructed in the Hauraki Plains.
The largest town fully within the Plains is Ngatea, with a smaller settlement of Turua. The larger town of Paeroa is located on the eastern edge of the Hauraki Plains. While there is no defined geographical southern boundary to the Hauraki Plains, this is generally taken as being a line between the towns of Te Aroha and Morrinsville, approximately following State Highway 26.
Three statistical areas cover the northern part of Hauraki Plains: Hauraki Plains North, Hauraki Plains East and Hauraki Plains South. They include Turua, Kaihere, Kerepehi, Pipiroa and Waitakaruru, and surround but do not include Ngatea. They cover 522.47 km2 (201.73 sq mi) and had an estimated population of 4,610 as of June 2024, with a population density of 8.8 people per km2.
Hauraki Plains had a population of 4,260 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 195 people (4.8%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 429 people (11.2%) since the 2013 census. There were 2,160 males, 2,085 females and 9 people of other genders in 1,521 dwellings. 2.0% of people identified as LGBTIQ+. There were 951 people (22.3%) aged under 15 years, 675 (15.8%) aged 15 to 29, 1,971 (46.3%) aged 30 to 64, and 660 (15.5%) aged 65 or older.
People could identify as more than one ethnicity. The results were 84.0% European (Pākehā); 22.4% Māori; 3.9% Pasifika; 4.8% Asian; 0.5% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders (MELAA); and 3.0% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander". English was spoken by 97.4%, Māori language by 3.8%, Samoan by 0.1%, and other languages by 4.8%. No language could be spoken by 2.2% (e.g. too young to talk). New Zealand Sign Language was known by 0.3%. The percentage of people born overseas was 12.3, compared with 28.8% nationally.
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Hauraki Plains
The Hauraki Plains are a geographical area located in the northern North Island of New Zealand, at the lower (northern) end of the Thames Valley. They are located 75 kilometres south-east of Auckland, at the foot of the Coromandel Peninsula and occupy the southern portion of a rift valley bounded on the north-west by the Hunua Ranges, to the east by the Coromandel and Kaimai ranges and to the west by a series of undulating hills which separate the plains from the much larger plains of the Waikato River.
The Plains are not presently a single administrative area, though a Hauraki Plains County Council existed from 1920 to 1989 and a statistical Area Unit remains. Broadly, the northern and southern parts of the Hauraki Plains are administered by the Hauraki District and the Matamata-Piako District respectively.
The alluvial plains have been built up by sediment deposited by the Piako and Waihou rivers, which flow north to reach the sea at the Firth of Thames, and earlier by the ancestral Waikato River. The resulting land is flat, peat-heavy, and partly swampy, which has been converted into excellent land for dairy farming.
Economically, the dairy farming is the leading primary industry, supported by other grassland farming. More recently, tourism in the Hauraki Plains region has been growing and the Hauraki Rail Trail, part of the New Zealand Cycle Trail, has been constructed in the Hauraki Plains.
The largest town fully within the Plains is Ngatea, with a smaller settlement of Turua. The larger town of Paeroa is located on the eastern edge of the Hauraki Plains. While there is no defined geographical southern boundary to the Hauraki Plains, this is generally taken as being a line between the towns of Te Aroha and Morrinsville, approximately following State Highway 26.
Three statistical areas cover the northern part of Hauraki Plains: Hauraki Plains North, Hauraki Plains East and Hauraki Plains South. They include Turua, Kaihere, Kerepehi, Pipiroa and Waitakaruru, and surround but do not include Ngatea. They cover 522.47 km2 (201.73 sq mi) and had an estimated population of 4,610 as of June 2024, with a population density of 8.8 people per km2.
Hauraki Plains had a population of 4,260 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 195 people (4.8%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 429 people (11.2%) since the 2013 census. There were 2,160 males, 2,085 females and 9 people of other genders in 1,521 dwellings. 2.0% of people identified as LGBTIQ+. There were 951 people (22.3%) aged under 15 years, 675 (15.8%) aged 15 to 29, 1,971 (46.3%) aged 30 to 64, and 660 (15.5%) aged 65 or older.
People could identify as more than one ethnicity. The results were 84.0% European (Pākehā); 22.4% Māori; 3.9% Pasifika; 4.8% Asian; 0.5% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders (MELAA); and 3.0% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander". English was spoken by 97.4%, Māori language by 3.8%, Samoan by 0.1%, and other languages by 4.8%. No language could be spoken by 2.2% (e.g. too young to talk). New Zealand Sign Language was known by 0.3%. The percentage of people born overseas was 12.3, compared with 28.8% nationally.
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