Roseneath is a small suburb of the

New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...

city of

Dunedin Dunedin ( ; ) is the second-most populous city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from ("fort of Edin"), the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of S ...

, located on the northwestern shore of Otago Harbour, 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 or ...

on a rocky promontory of the same name which juts into the harbour between Sawyers Bay and Blanket Bay. The suburb and promontory are likely to have been named from the similar location of Rosneath 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 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

2018 New Zealand census The 2018 New Zealand census, which took place on Tuesday 6 March 2018, was the thirty-fourth national census in New Zealand. The population of New Zealand was counted as 4,699,755 – an increase of 457,707 (10.79%) over the 2013 census. Resu ...

, an increase of 9 people (4.1%) since the 2013 census, and a decrease of 21 people (−8.4%) since the 2006 census. There were 105 households, comprising 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/

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, 9.2% Māori, 1.3% Pasifika, 2.6% Asian, and 1.3% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity. Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 55.3% had no religion, 32.9% were

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and 3.9% had other religions. Of those at least 15 years old, 69 (35.4%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 30 (15.4%) people had no formal qualifications. 42 people (21.5%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. 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 Populated places around the Otago Harbour