Waitohi, Waitohi Flat and Upper Waitohi are small farming centres from 5 to 16 km west of

Temuka Temuka is a town on New Zealand's Canterbury Plains, 15 kilometres north of Timaru and 142 km south of Christchurch. It is located at the centre of a rich sheep and dairy farming region, for which it is a service town. It lies on the no ...

and north of the Opihi river, South

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. They are about 20 km north of

Timaru Timaru (; mi, Te Tihi-o-Maru) is a port city in the southern Canterbury Region of New Zealand, located southwest of Christchurch and about northeast of Dunedin on the eastern Pacific coast of the South Island. The Timaru urban area is home to ...

. It is the area where

Richard Pearse Richard William Pearse (3 December 187729 July 1953) was a New Zealand farmer and inventor who performed pioneering aviation experiments. Witnesses interviewed many years afterward describe observing Pearse flying and landing a powered heavie ...

, a pioneer aviator, lived and farmed. From 1902 to 1904, Richard Pearce built and flew experimental aircraft on his Waitohi farm and managed to achieve powered flight.

Demographics

The Waitohi statistical area includes Winchester and

Milford Huts Milford Huts is a bach community in the Timaru district and Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. Milford Huts is on the northern side of the Ōpihi River mouth, 7.5 kilometres southeast of Temuka by road. The area is at risk of f ...

, and surrounds but does not include

. It covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km². The statistical area had a population of 1,761 at the

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, an increase of 24 people (1.4%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 159 people (9.9%) 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 696 households. There were 927 males and 834 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.11 males per female. The median age was 38.7 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 366 people (20.8%) aged under 15 years, 318 (18.1%) aged 15 to 29, 828 (47.0%) aged 30 to 64, and 249 (14.1%) aged 65 or older. Ethnicities were 85.2% European/Pākehā, 12.6% Māori, 1.0% Pacific peoples, 6.5% Asian, and 4.1% other ethnicities (totals add to more than 100% since people could identify with multiple ethnicities). The proportion of people born overseas was 16.4%, compared with 27.1% nationally. Although some people objected to giving their religion, 52.8% had no religion, 35.8% were Christian, 1.2% were Hindu, 0.2% were Muslim, 0.3% were Buddhist and 2.0% had other religions. Of those at least 15 years old, 186 (13.3%) people had a bachelor or higher degree, and 327 (23.4%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $35,500, compared with $31,800 nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 789 (56.6%) people were employed full-time, 213 (15.3%) were part-time, and 33 (2.4%) were unemployed.

References

External links

Hurunui Horse Trecks, The Waitohi Wanderer

Cyclopedia of New Zealand ''The Cyclopedia of New Zealand: industrial, descriptive, historical, biographical facts, figures, illustrations'' was an encyclopaedia published in New Zealand between 1897 and 1908 by the Cyclopedia Company Ltd. Arthur McKee was one of the origi ...

, 1903 {{Timaru District, New Zealand Timaru District Populated places in Canterbury, New Zealand