Roseneath is a small suburb of the

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city of

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 ...

, located on the northwestern shore of

Otago Harbour Otago Harbour is the natural harbour of Dunedin, New Zealand, consisting of a long, much-indented stretch of generally navigable water separating the Otago Peninsula from the mainland. They join at its southwest end, from the harbour mouth. I ...

, to the northeast of Dunedin city centre. It is situated between Saint Leonards and

Port Chalmers Port Chalmers is a town serving as the main port of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand. Port Chalmers lies ten kilometres inside Otago Harbour, some 15 kilometres northeast of Dunedin's city centre. History Early Māori settlement The origi ...

on a rocky promontory of the same name which juts into the harbour between

Sawyers Bay Sawyers Bay is a suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located to the southwest of Port Chalmers in a wide valley on the shore of Mussel Bay, to the northeast of Dunedin city centre. The suburb, on the western shore of Otago Harbou ...

and Blanket Bay. The suburb and promontory are likely to have been named from the similar location of

Rosneath Rosneath (''Ros Neimhidh'' in Gaelic) is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It sits on the western shore of the Gare Loch, northwest of the tip of the Rosneath Peninsula. It is about by road from the village of Kilcreggan, which is sited ...

in Scotland. State Highway 88, linking

and central Dunedin traverses a low saddle immediately to the west of the suburb, and the

South Island Main Trunk The Main North Line between Picton and Christchurch and the Main South Line between Lyttelton and Invercargill, running down the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand, are sometimes together referred to collectively as the South Isl ...

rail line passes through a tunnel beneath the promontory. The suburb's few streets include District Road, Shandon Street, and Clyde Street. Panoramic views of the harbour can be gained from close to the short peninsula's southernmost point, Kilgour Point. Prior to local body reorganisation in New Zealand in the late 1980s, Roseneath was a suburb of Port Chalmers.

Demographics

Roseneath, which covers , is part of the Roseneath-Sawyers Bay statistical area. It had a population of 228 at the

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, an increase of 9 people (4.1%) since the 2013 census, and a decrease of 21 people (-8.4%) 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 105 households. There were 108 males and 123 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.88 males per female, with 33 people (14.5%) aged under 15 years, 24 (10.5%) aged 15 to 29, 123 (53.9%) aged 30 to 64, and 51 (22.4%) aged 65 or older. Ethnicities were 96.1% European/Pākehā, 9.2% Māori, 1.3% Pacific peoples, 2.6% Asian, and 1.3% other ethnicities (totals add to more than 100% since people could identify with multiple ethnicities). Although some people objected to giving their religion, 55.3% had no religion, 32.9% were Christian and 3.9% had other religions. Of those at least 15 years old, 69 (35.4%) people had a bachelor or higher degree, and 30 (15.4%) people had no formal qualifications. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 99 (50.8%) people were employed full-time, 30 (15.4%) were part-time, and 6 (3.1%) were unemployed.

References

{{Dunedin suburbs Suburbs of Dunedin Port Chalmers