Talk:Ruapuke

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This article is in its infancy and will expand into the history and characters of the area. There is a body of evidence thats supports a theory that a mohogany ship wreck seen on Ruapuke beach around 300 years ago, with some supporting artifacts and fragmnent found since, support a theory that the Chinese came to NZ well before Captain Cook arrived and that the indiginous maori people are actual descendents of these Asians.. Lets run with this for a while???

Thanks dragon fly..please continue.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.45.145.238 (talk • contribs) 9 May 2006 (UTC)

The style of this article doesn't even begin to approach encyclopedic - it sounds like a feature in a travel magazine. Please stick to sourced facts. dramatic (talk) 23:54, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Demographics

@Johnragla: Since 2018, Stats NZ does not release the populationdemographics of meshblocks for free. According to they can be purchased, along with most of the other demographics data Wikipedia usually reports, for $620+gst.

The article currently states it uses meshblocks 0853300 and 0861800 for Ruapuke. I hope the first of these is a typo, because 0853300 is on the western side of Glen Massey. The correct meshblocks for Ruapuke are 0861502 and 0861800. These cover 33.68+55.77 = 89.45 square kilometres.

In most other NZ articles, we use SA1 areas as the smallest unit (data is freely available for these). 08533000861502 corresponds to 7029980 (33.68 square km; population 90 in 2023) and to the larger 7011306 (45.25 square km; population 189 in 2018), but 0861800 is part of the much larger 7011317 SA1 (141.85 square km; population 192 in 2023), and goes much further east than anything considered part of Ruapuke.

I am not inclined to purchase the meshblock demographics, nor to ask the WikiMedia Foundation to purchase them for me, because there would be only a few cases like this one where they would be useful, and the work to parse the data manually or to write a script to parse them automatically (as I have written for the SA1 and larger units) would seem excessive for these few cases. These financial and time costs would recur with each census.

For the present, I will leave the existing demographics alone, and hope the first meshblock is the correct one. If anyone thinks the SA1 demographics are more appropriate, I can add those, or anyone else can copy and past the output from below.-Gadfium (talk) 02:54, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

@Gadfium: Thanks for that information. I don't know where the meshblock number came from, but I've corrected it. Johnragla (talk) 04:25, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

2023 statistics

Ruapuke and its surrounds cover 175.53 km² (67.77 sq mi), taking in the western side of the land between Whaingaroa and Aotoa Harbours and extending to the east of Makomako.. They are part of the larger Te Uku statistical area.

Historical population for Ruapuke and surrounds

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
2006	231	—
2013	207	−1.55%
2018	270	+5.46%
2023	282	+0.87%
The 2006 population is for a larger area of 187.10 km2. Source:

Ruapuke and its surrounds had a population of 282 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 12 people (4.4%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 75 people (36.2%) since the 2013 census. There were 138 males and 147 females in 102 dwellings. 3.2% of people identified as LGBTIQ+. There were 57 people (20.2%) aged under 15 years, 42 (14.9%) aged 15 to 29, 132 (46.8%) aged 30 to 64, and 54 (19.1%) aged 65 or older.

People could identify as more than one ethnicity. The results were 74.5% European (Pākehā); 42.6% Māori; 3.2% Pasifika; 1.1% Asian; 1.1% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders (MELAA); and 2.1% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander". English was spoken by 96.8%, Māori language by 16.0%, and other languages by 5.3%. No language could be spoken by 3.2% (e.g. too young to talk). New Zealand Sign Language was known by 1.1%. The percentage of people born overseas was 10.6, compared with 28.8% nationally.

Religious affiliations were 20.2% Christian, 1.1% Māori religious beliefs, and 2.1% New Age. People who answered that they had no religion were 72.3%, and 3.2% of people did not answer the census question.

Of those at least 15 years old, 42 (18.7%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, 132 (58.7%) had a post-high school certificate or diploma, and 66 (29.3%) people exclusively held high school qualifications. 15 people (6.7%) earned over $100,000 compared to 12.1% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 108 (48.0%) people were employed full-time, 33 (14.7%) were part-time, and 12 (5.3%) were unemployed. @Gadfium:Thanks for that information. I don't know where the meshblock number came from, but I've corrected it. Eventually it'll be worth comparing growth of the SA1 area to correct for growth. Johnragla (talk) 04:25, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

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