Harrowfield is a suburb in eastern

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. It was built in about 1991. Part of Tauhara Park borders the suburb. The park has a mini golf area, a playground, sports fields and walkway/cycleway paths, which connect Harrowfield to the Kirikiriroa Stream valley, Queenwood and Flagstaff. Some of the park, on the far side of Wairere Drive, covers the old Rototuna

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. Since the late 1990s much of the

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from the landfill has been collected for disposal at Pukete sewage works. However residents were expressing concerns about it in 2012.

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in the suburb attract many visitors. In 2017 development of a further 22 dwellings, including 8 duplexes, was approved. Previous developments were on plots of around , rather than the higher density of the new one, which backs on to Wairere Drive.

Demographics

Harrowfield is marked on the 1:50,000 map and is referred to as a suburb in its own right, but as a census area it is part of Queenwood. Harrowfield covers Horrowfield had a population of 579 in the

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, an increase of 141 people (32.2%) since the 2018 census, and an increase of 108 people (22.9%) since the 2013 census. There were 273 males and 306 females in 207 dwellings. 2.1% of people identified as LGBTIQ+. There were 96 people (16.6%) aged under 15 years, 120 (20.7%) aged 15 to 29, 258 (44.6%) aged 30 to 64, and 105 (18.1%) aged 65 or older. People could identify as more than one ethnicity. The results were 75.1%

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), 13.5%

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, 2.1% Pasifika, 19.7% Asian, and 3.6% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander". English was spoken by 94.8%, Māori language by 3.6%, Samoan by 1.0%, and other languages by 21.2%. No language could be spoken by 1.6% (e.g. too young to talk). The percentage of people born overseas was 28.0, compared with 28.8% nationally. Religious affiliations were 36.3%

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, 1.6%

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, 1.6%

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, 1.6%

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, 0.5%

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, and 3.1% other religions. People who answered that they had no religion were 49.7%, and 5.7% of people did not answer the census question. Of those at least 15 years old, 174 (36.0%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, 243 (50.3%) had a post-high school certificate or diploma, and 66 (13.7%) people exclusively held high school qualifications. 93 people (19.3%) earned over $100,000 compared to 12.1% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 267 (55.3%) people were employed full-time, 69 (14.3%) were part-time, and 18 (3.7%) were unemployed.

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