Lake Roxburgh is an artificial lake, created by the

Roxburgh Dam The Roxburgh Dam is the earliest of the large hydroelectricity, hydroelectric projects in the lower half of the South Island of New Zealand. It lies across the Clutha River, Clutha River / Mata-Au, some from Dunedin, some to the north of the town ...

, the earliest of the large

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projects in the southern

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. It lies on the

Clutha River The Clutha River (, officially gazetted as Clutha River / ) is the second longest river in New Zealand and the longest in the South Island. It flows south-southeast through Central and South Otago from Lake Wānaka in the Southern Alps to the P ...

, some from

Dunedin Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th ...

. It covers an area of some , and extends for nearly towards the town of

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. The town of

Roxburgh Roxburgh () is a civil parish and formerly a royal burgh, in the historic county of Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. It was an important trading burgh in High Medieval to early modern Scotland. In the Middle Ages it had at leas ...

lies south of the Dam.

Demographics

Lake Roxburgh Village is described by Statistics New Zealand as a rural settlement. It covers . It is part of the much larger Teviot Valley statistical area. Lake Roxburgh Village had a population of 81 at the

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, an increase of 6 people (8.0%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 9 people (12.5%) since the

2006 census 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

. There were 36 households. There were 39 males and 42 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.93 males per female. The median age was 59.2 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 6 people (7.4%) aged under 15 years, 15 (18.5%) aged 15 to 29, 33 (40.7%) aged 30 to 64, and 24 (29.6%) aged 65 or older. Ethnicities were 88.9% European/Pākehā, 18.5% Māori, 7.4% Pacific peoples, and 3.7% Asian (totals add to more than 100% since people could identify with multiple ethnicities). Although some people objected to giving their religion, 59.3% had no religion, and 37.0% were Christian. Of those at least 15 years old, 3 (4.0%) people had a bachelor or higher degree, and 24 (32.0%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $20,800, compared with $31,800 nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 30 (40.0%) people were employed full-time, 15 (20.0%) were part-time, and 3 (4.0%) were unemployed.

References

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