Pukeuri is a settlement to the north of
Oamaru
Oamaru (; mi, Te Oha-a-Maru) is the largest town in North Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand, it is the main town in the Waitaki District. It is south of Timaru and north of Dunedin on the Pacific coast; State Highway 1 and the railway ...
in the
North Otago
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region of New Zealand's
South Island
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. It is located near the coast in the
Waitaki District
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that straddles the border of
Otago
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and
Canterbury
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...
.
The settlement's major employer is the Alliance
abattoir
A slaughterhouse, also called abattoir (), is a facility where animals are slaughtered to provide food. Slaughterhouses supply meat, which then becomes the responsibility of a packaging facility.
Slaughterhouses that produce meat that is no ...
, which is North Otago's biggest employer. A large fire in January 2006 came at the height of the killing season and caused significant disruptions for both workers and customers.
Pukeuri is the location of the junction of
State Highways 1 and
83, and it used to be the junction of the
Main South Line
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and
Kurow Branch
The Kurow Branch (also known as the Hakataramea Branch) was part of New Zealand's national rail network. In the North Otago region of the South Island, it was built in the 1870s to open up the land behind Oamaru for development, and closed in ...
railway
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...
s as well. The Main South Line still runs through the town, though it no longer caters for passenger traffic. Construction of the
branch line
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Industrial spur
An industr ...
began in 1874 and Pukeuri served as the junction until the line's closure in 1983.
A plaque next to
State Highway 1
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to the north of the settlement (close to the farming community of
Hilderthorpe) marks the
45th parallel.
Demographics
The statistical unit which includes Pukeuri covers .
It is part of the larger Lower Waitaki statistical area.
The unit had a population of 177 at the
2018 New Zealand census
Eighteen or 18 may refer to:
* 18 (number), the natural number following 17 and preceding 19
* one of the years 18 BC, AD 18, 1918, 2018
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, an increase of 6 people (3.5%) since the
2013 census, and an increase of 24 people (15.7%) since the
2006 census
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. There were 60 households. There were 90 males and 87 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.03 males per female. The median age was 38.1 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 39 people (22.0%) aged under 15 years, 33 (18.6%) aged 15 to 29, 81 (45.8%) aged 30 to 64, and 18 (10.2%) aged 65 or older.
Ethnicities were 88.1% European/Pākehā, 11.9% Māori, and 5.1% Asian (totals add to more than 100% since people could identify with multiple ethnicities).
Although some people objected to giving their religion, 54.2% had no religion, 35.6% were Christian and 1.7% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 15 (10.9%) people had a bachelor or higher degree, and 27 (19.6%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $36,400, compared with $31,800 nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 75 (54.3%) people were employed full-time, 18 (13.0%) were part-time, and 3 (2.2%) were unemployed.
Lower Waitaki statistical area
Lower Waitaki covers
and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km
2.
Lower Waitaki had a population of 1,389 at the
2018 New Zealand census
Eighteen or 18 may refer to:
* 18 (number), the natural number following 17 and preceding 19
* one of the years 18 BC, AD 18, 1918, 2018
Film, television and entertainment
* ''18'' (film), a 1993 Taiwanese experimental film based on the sho ...
, an increase of 123 people (9.7%) since the
2013 census, and an increase of 342 people (32.7%) 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 501 households. There were 708 males and 681 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.04 males per female. The median age was 40.1 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 309 people (22.2%) aged under 15 years, 231 (16.6%) aged 15 to 29, 636 (45.8%) aged 30 to 64, and 210 (15.1%) aged 65 or older.
Ethnicities were 89.6% European/Pākehā, 7.3% Māori, 1.1% Pacific peoples, 5.8% Asian, and 1.9% other ethnicities (totals add to more than 100% since people could identify with multiple ethnicities).
The proportion of people born overseas was 13.6%, compared with 27.1% nationally.
Although some people objected to giving their religion, 51.0% had no religion, 41.0% were Christian, 0.4% were Buddhist and 1.3% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 150 (13.9%) people had a bachelor or higher degree, and 243 (22.5%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $36,900, compared with $31,800 nationally. 168 people (15.6%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 591 (54.7%) people were employed full-time, 174 (16.1%) were part-time, and 33 (3.1%) were unemployed.
References
External links
News article on fire at Pukeuri meatworks
{{Waitaki District, New Zealand
Waitaki District
Populated places in Otago