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Te Maunga

Te Maunga is a suburb of Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty, in New Zealand's North Island.

A large timber fire broke out in Te Maunga in November 2019.

The area experienced surface flooding in June 2020.

In September 2020, the New Zealand Transport Agency began work on a new traffic interchange. The interchange opened in stages from 2022, with State Highway 2 fully separated from local roads in October 2023.

Te Maunga covers 3.49 km2 (1.35 sq mi) and had an estimated population of 8,970 as of June 2025, with a population density of 2,570 people per km2.

Te Maunga had a population of 8,448 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 1,062 people (14.4%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 2,574 people (43.8%) since the 2013 census. There were 3,777 males, 4,656 females, and 15 people of other genders in 3,549 dwellings. 2.0% of people identified as LGBTIQ+. There were 1,311 people (15.5%) aged under 15 years, 1,200 (14.2%) aged 15 to 29, 3,267 (38.7%) aged 30 to 64, and 2,670 (31.6%) aged 65 or older.

People could identify as more than one ethnicity. The results were 84.5% European (Pākehā); 16.9% Māori; 3.0% Pasifika; 5.9% Asian; 2.0% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders (MELAA); and 2.0% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander". English was spoken by 96.9%, Māori by 4.0%, Samoan by 0.4%, and other languages by 9.7%. No language could be spoken by 2.0% (e.g. too young to talk). New Zealand Sign Language was known by 0.3%. The percentage of people born overseas was 23.0, compared with 28.8% nationally.

Religious affiliations were 36.3% Christian, 0.9% Hindu, 0.2% Islam, 1.8% Māori religious beliefs, 0.4% Buddhist, 0.2% New Age, and 1.2% other religions. People who answered that they had no religion were 52.3%, and 6.7% of people did not answer the census question.

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