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Clendon Park is a suburb of Auckland in northern New Zealand. It is located to the west of Manurewa and north of Weymouth. The suburb is in the Manurewa-Papakura ward,[3] one of the 21 local boards of Auckland Council.[4]

Clendon Park is named after Captain James Reddy Clendon who in 1840 traded land he owned in the Bay of Islands with the newly formed New Zealand Government for 10,000 acres (40 km²) of land, then south of Auckland CBD.[5]

Demographics

Clendon Park covers 1.80 km² (0.69 sq mi)[1] and had an estimated population of 9,730 as of June 2021,[2] with a population density of 5,406 people per km².

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
2006	7,965	—
2013	7,794	−0.31%
2018	8,871	+2.62%
Source: [6]

Clendon Park had a population of 8,871 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 1,077 people (13.8%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 906 people (11.4%) since the 2006 census. There were 1,986 households, comprising 4,347 males and 4,524 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.96 males per female, with 2,760 people (31.1%) aged under 15 years, 2,337 (26.3%) aged 15 to 29, 3,399 (38.3%) aged 30 to 64, and 381 (4.3%) aged 65 or older.

Ethnicities were 16.6% European/Pākehā, 29.6% Māori, 55.4% Pacific peoples, 16.5% Asian, and 1.8% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.

The percentage of people born overseas was 34.2, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 23.4% had no religion, 55.3% were Christian, 4.0% had Māori religious beliefs, 6.9% were Hindu, 3.1% were Muslim, 0.7% were Buddhist and 1.7% had other religions.

Of those at least 15 years old, 522 (8.5%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 1,341 (21.9%) people had no formal qualifications. 330 people (5.4%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 2,946 (48.2%) people were employed full-time, 594 (9.7%) were part-time, and 513 (8.4%) were unemployed.[6]

Individual statistical areas

Name	Area (km2)	Population	Density (per km2)	Households	Median age	Median income
Clendon Park North	0.75	3,339	4,452	741	26.1 years	$24,000[7]
Clendon Park West	0.46	3,261	7,089	720	25.6 years	$23,500[8]
Clendon Park East	0.59	2,271	3,849	525	25.0 years	$21,800[9]
New Zealand					37.4 years	$31,800

Education

Waimahia Intermediate School is an intermediate school (years 7–8), with a roll of 222.[10]

Clendon Park School, Te Matauranga and Roscommon School are contributing primary schools (years 1–6), with rolls of 640, 330 and 470 students, respectively.[11][12][13] Clendon Park School opened in 1971.[14] Te Matauranga has some Samoan classes up to year 8.

Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Manurewa is a full primary school (years 1–8), with a roll of 80.[15]

All these schools are coeducational. Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Manurewa teaches primarily in the Māori language.[16] All other schools here include classes in Māori and Samoan languages.[17][18][19][20] Rolls are as of July 2022.[21]

See also

• Manurewa High School

References

External links

• Photographs of Clendon Park held in Auckland Libraries' heritage collections.

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