Māngere () or Mangere is one of the largest
suburbs in
Auckland
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, in northern New Zealand. It is located on mainly flat land on the northeastern shore of the
Manukau Harbour, to the northwest of
Manukau City Centre and 15 kilometres south of the
Auckland city centre
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. It is the location of
Auckland Airport, which lies close to the harbour's edge to the south of the suburb.
Māngere has three major sub-areas:
Māngere Bridge, Māngere Central, and
Māngere East, with
Favona (in the east) sometimes counted as part of Māngere as well.
The suburb is named after
Māngere Mountain, one of Auckland's largest
volcanic cone
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s. The cone's name comes from the
Māori phrase ''hau māngere'', meaning "lazy winds", after the shelter the mountain provides from the prevailing westerly wind. In 2019, the name of the suburb was officially gazetted as Māngere.
Demographics
Māngere covers
and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km
2.
Māngere had a population of 21,363 at the
2018 New Zealand census
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, an increase of 2,067 people (10.7%) since the
2013 census, and an increase of 2,613 people (13.9%) since the
2006 census. There were 4,317 households, comprising 10,407 males and 10,950 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.95 males per female, with 5,997 people (28.1%) aged under 15 years, 5,703 (26.7%) aged 15 to 29, 8,010 (37.5%) aged 30 to 64, and 1,650 (7.7%) aged 65 or older.
Ethnicities were 11.6% European/
Pākehā
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, 16.1%
Māori, 68.1%
Pacific peoples, 17.5%
Asian, and 1.0% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.
The percentage of people born overseas was 39.7, compared with 27.1% nationally.
Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 14.4% had no religion, 64.7% were
Christian
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, 2.3% had
Māori religious beliefs, 4.9% were
Hindu, 7.7% were
Muslim, 0.7% were
Buddhist
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and 0.7% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 1,452 (9.4%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 3,582 (23.3%) people had no formal qualifications. 939 people (6.1%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 7,236 (47.1%) people were employed full-time, 1,647 (10.7%) were part-time, and 975 (6.3%) were unemployed.
Society

Māngere is often described as a very multicultural area, with Europeans, Māori, Pacific Islanders and Asians living in the area, often with large families.
Houses are a mixture of villas and bungalows, often located on former farms or market gardens developed by the state in the 1940s to 1960s.
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Māngere's most famous son is David Lange, who was the Member of Parliament for Māngere from 1977 until 1996 and Prime Minister of New Zealand. Another local personality is former heavyweight boxing champion David Tua.
William Sio of the ]New Zealand Labour Party
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has been the member of Parliament for the Māngere electorate since 2008.
Marae
Māngere has three marae
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:
* Makaurau Marae and its Tāmaki Makaurau meeting house are affiliated with the Waikato Tainui hapū of Ngāti Paretaua, Te Ākitai and Ngāti Te Ata.
* Pūkaki Marae and Te Kāhu Pokere o Tāmaki Mākaurau meeting house are affiliated with the hapū of Ngāti Pare Waiohua from Te Ākitai Waiohua, and the hapū of Te Ākitai, Ngāti Te Ata and Ngāti Paretaua from Waikato Tainui.
* Mātaatua Marae and its Awanuiarangi meeting house are affiliated with the Ngāti Awa
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hapū of Ngāti Awa ki Tāmaki Makaurau.
Transport
The original Māngere Bridge was built to link Mangere with Onehunga to its north while the isthmus
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of Auckland reaches its narrowest point, further to the east at Ōtāhuhu. Later, it provided a more direct route for traffic to and from Auckland Airport. Construction of a new bridge was the subject of one of New Zealand's longest-running industrial disputes, from 1978 until 1980. The bridge was finally completed in 1983. The Southwestern Motorway ( State Highway 20), one of the two motorways running south from the isthmus, runs across the bridge and through Māngere.
Passenger train Southern and Eastern Line services run along the eastern edge of Māngere, stopping at Middlemore railway station. Further north at Massey Road is Māngere railway station
Māngere railway station was a station at Māngere on the Eastern and Southern Lines of the Auckland railway network. It had an offset side platform layout with no connection between the two platforms. Both the northbound and southbound platf ...
, closed in 2011.
Frequent bus services (15 mins schedules) connect Māngere Town Centre to Sylvia Park via Otahuhu railway station (route 32) and to Botany Town Centre via Papatoetoe railway station and Ōtara (route 31). Connections can be made with Onehunga, Auckland Airport and Manukau Bus Station on (route 380) Note: The 313 runs on a more direct route between Onehunga, Māngere, Papatoetoe and Manukau but services are at 30 min frequencies.
Education
Māngere College
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is a secondary school (years 9–13) with a roll of students.
Sir Douglas Bader Intermediate School is an intermediate school (years 7–8) with a roll of students.
Mangere Central School and Viscount School are full primary schools (years 1–8) with rolls of and students, respectively.
Jean Batten School and Nga Iwi School are contributing primary schools (years 1–6) with rolls of and students, respectively.
Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Māngere is a Māori-language area school (years 1–13) with a roll of students.
Al-Madinah School is an area school (years 1–13) and Zayed College for Girls is a secondary school (years 7–13) with rolls of and students, respectively. They are state-integrated Islamic schools on adjacent sites.
All these schools except for Zayed College are coeducational. Rolls are as of
Sport and recreation
The Māngere Arts Centre Ngā Tohu o Uenuku is an Auckland Council owned and operated performing arts venue and gallery space.
The Mangere East Hawks rugby league
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club is based in Māngere at the Walter Massey Park.
The Manukau Rovers RFC rugby union
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club is also based in Māngere and competes in the Auckland Premier Competition.
The Mangere United
Mangere United is a community football club football (soccer) club in Mangere, Auckland, New Zealand. They are currently a member of the Auckland Football Federation.
In 2018, Mangere United went in a partnership with fellow South Auckland ...
football club is also based in Māngere and competes in the Auckland Football and NZ Football National League Competitions.
Notable buildings
* St James' Church (Anglican
*Selwyn Church, Māngere East
Notable people
* Valerie Adams – Olympic shot put champion
* Frank Bunce – rugby union
*Mark Hunt
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– mixed martial artist
* David Lange – former Prime Minister
* Jonah Lomu – rugby union
* Colin Moyle – politician
* Joseph Parker – boxer
*Pene and Amitai Pati – tenors Sol3 Mio
* Jason Taumalolo – rugby league
* David Tua – heavyweight boxer
* Roger Tuivasa-Sheck – rugby league
*Kween Kong
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– Drag superstar, house mother and cabaret artist
References
External links
Photographs of Mangere
held in Auckland Libraries' heritage collections.
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Suburbs of Auckland
Māngere-Ōtāhuhu Local Board Area
Populated places around the Manukau Harbour