Epuni is a suburb of

Lower Hutt Lower Hutt () is a list of cities in New Zealand, city in the Wellington Region of New Zealand. Administered by the Hutt City Council, it is one of the four cities that constitute the Wellington#Wellington metropolitan area, Wellington metropoli ...

, situated in the

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of New Zealand. The suburb lies around one kilometre east of the Lower Hutt CBD. The suburb takes its name from the

Te Āti Awa Te Āti Awa or Te Ātiawa is a Māori iwi with traditional bases in the Taranaki and Wellington regions of New Zealand. Approximately 17,000 people registered their affiliation to Te Āti Awa in 2001, with about 10,000 in Taranaki, 2,000 in We ...

chief Honiana Te Puni. In 2018 HNZ, which in October 2019 became part of Kaingaora Ora Homes and Communities, announced that it was to build 153 homes on long-vacant land in Epuni where earlier HNZ houses had been demolished.

Demographics

Epuni, comprising the statistical areas of Epuni West and Epuni East, covers . It had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km². Epuni had a population of 6,039 at the

2018 New Zealand census The 2018 New Zealand census, which took place on Tuesday 6 March 2018, was the thirty-fourth national census in New Zealand. The population of New Zealand was counted as 4,699,755 – an increase of 457,707 (10.79%) over the 2013 census. Resu ...

, an increase of 153 people (2.6%) since the 2013 census, and a decrease of 24 people (−0.4%) since the 2006 census. There were 2,262 households, comprising 2,985 males and 3,051 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.98 males per female, with 1,149 people (19.0%) aged under 15 years, 1,155 (19.1%) aged 15 to 29, 2,853 (47.2%) aged 30 to 64, and 885 (14.7%) aged 65 or older. Ethnicities were 63.4% European/

Pākehā ''Pākehā'' (or ''Pakeha''; ; ) is a Māori language, Māori-language word used in English, particularly in New Zealand. It generally means a non-Polynesians, Polynesian New Zealanders, New Zealander or more specifically a European New Zeala ...

, 13.5%

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, 8.2% Pasifika, 23.3% Asian, and 4.2% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity. The percentage of people born overseas was 29.8%, compared with 27.1% nationally. Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 41.5% had no religion, 40.0% were

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, 0.8% had

Māori religious beliefs Māori or Maori can refer to: Relating to the Māori people * Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group * Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand * Māori culture * Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the Co ...

, 5.8% were

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, 2.1% were

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, 1.7% were

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and 2.3% had other religions. Of those at least 15 years old, 1,413 (28.9%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 801 (16.4%) people had no formal qualifications. 984 people (20.1%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 2,424 (49.6%) people were employed full-time, 696 (14.2%) were part-time, and 240 (4.9%) were unemployed.

Education

Dyer Street School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 6 students, with a roll of as of .

References

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