The area is under local governance of the Auckland Council, and is located to the south-east of the Auckland city centre.Įast Tāmaki is the largest industrial precinct in Auckland, a manufacturing and distribution hub of 2,000 businesses contributing $3 billion for the New Zealand economy each year, $19 million in rates annually, and 30,000 jobs with projected jobs of 45,000 on completion of Highbrook Business Park. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 294 (67.1%) people were employed full-time, 39 (8.9%) were part-time, and 18 (4.1%) were unemployed. Of those at least 15 years old, 93 (21.2%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 39 (8.9%) people had no formal qualifications.

The percentage of people born overseas was 52.1, compared with 27.1% nationally.Īlthough some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 38.7% had no religion, 37.4% were Christian, 0.6% had Māori religious beliefs, 9.8% were Hindu, 3.1% were Muslim, 3.7% were Buddhist and 3.1% had other religions. People may identify with more than one ethnicity. There were 177 households, comprising 285 males and 201 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.42 males per female, with 51 people (10.4%) aged under 15 years, 105 (21.5%) aged 15 to 29, 309 (63.2%) aged 30 to 64, and 27 (5.5%) aged 65 or older.Įthnicities were 41.1% European/ Pākehā, 6.1% Māori, 9.2% Pacific peoples, 45.4% Asian, and 4.3% other ethnicities. Demographics Įast Tāmaki covers 10.25 km 2 (3.96 sq mi) and had an estimated population of 540 as of June 2022, with a population density of 53 people per km 2.Įast Tāmaki had a population of 489 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 114 people (30.4%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 180 people (58.3%) since the 2006 census. The area was historically known as 'Farnsworth'. Mātangi nui was also a pā site, not too far from Puke I Āki Rangi (Point View) which connected the Mangemangeroa Valley, and the areas surrounding all three cones were thought to represent the densest area of pre-European settlement in East Tāmaki, favoured rich volcanic gardening soils and fresh water springs. A third cone called Highbrook by pakeha (white/European) settlers and in Maori Te Puke Ariki nui or Te Maunga/mountain of the Great/paramount chief. Like most of Auckland, the East Tāmaki landscape is volcanic in origin and forms a part of what is known as the East Tāmaki volcanic field, with Te Puke o Tara and Mātanginui (Greenmount) having been the dominant cones of Ōtara. One of East Tāmaki's prominent volcanic cones, and prior to European settlement in the area was the site of a scoria cone pā. Te Puke o Tara was the home of paramount chief Tara Te Irirangi of Ngai Tai Iwi. Te Puke o Tara (literally ‘The Hill of Tara’) known also for a time as Smales Mount. Aerial view of Ōtara Hill in 1958, before quarrying

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