Kaihere

Kaihere is in an SA1 statistical area which covers {{Convert|16.89|km2||abbr=on}}.{{Cite web|title=Stats NZ Geographic Data Service|url=https://datafinder.stats.govt.nz/data/|at=Statistical Area 1 2023 (generalised)|access-date=7 March 2025}} The SA1 area is included in the demographics for Hauraki Plains South.

{{Historical populations|2001|114|2006|123|2013|135|2018|147|2023|135|percentages=pagr|align=left|title=Historical population for Kaihere and surrounds|source={{Cite web |title=Census {{!}} 2018 {{!}} SA1 Dataset {{!}} GIS Map |url=https://datafinder.stats.govt.nz/data/category/census/2018/sa1-dataset/sa1/?s=a |access-date=2022-03-08 |website=datafinder.stats.govt.nz}}}}

The SA1 area had a population of 135 in the 2023 New Zealand census, a decrease of 12 people (−8.2%) since the 2018 census, and unchanged since the 2013 census. There were 69 males and 69 females in 45 dwellings.{{cite web|url=https://explore.data.stats.govt.nz/vis?fs[0]=2023%20Census%2C0%7CTotals%20by%20topic%23CAT_TOTALS_BY_TOPIC%23&pg=0&fc=Variable%20codes&bp=true&snb=9&df[ds]=ds-nsiws-disseminate&df[id]=CEN23_TBT_009&df[ag]=STATSNZ&df[vs]=1.0&dq=doTotal%2Bdo1.7010847.2023&ly[rw]=CEN23_TBT_DWD_003|publisher=Stats NZ – Tatauranga Aotearoa – Aotearoa Data Explorer|access-date=3 October 2024|title=Totals by topic for dwellings, (RC, TALB, UR, SA3, SA2, Ward, Health), 2013, 2018, and 2023 Censuses}} 2.2% of people identified as LGBTIQ+. The median age was 37.3 years (compared with 38.1 years nationally). There were 36 people (26.7%) aged under 15 years, 18 (13.3%) aged 15 to 29, 63 (46.7%) aged 30 to 64, and 15 (11.1%) aged 65 or older.

People could identify as more than one ethnicity. The results were 88.9% European (Pākehā), 6.7% Māori, 2.2% Pasifika, 13.3% Asian, and 4.4% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander". English was spoken by 95.6%, and other languages by 6.7%. No language could be spoken by 4.4% (e.g. too young to talk). The percentage of people born overseas was 22.2, compared with 28.8% nationally.

Religious affiliations were 26.7% Christian, 6.7% Hindu, 2.2% Buddhist, and 2.2% other religions. People who answered that they had no religion were 51.1%, and 11.1% of people did not answer the census question.

Of those at least 15 years old, 18 (18.2%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, 57 (57.6%) had a post-high school certificate or diploma, and 30 (30.3%) people exclusively held high school qualifications. The median income was $41,900, compared with $41,500 nationally. 6 people (6.1%) earned over $100,000 compared to 12.1% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 54 (54.5%) people were employed full-time, 12 (12.1%) were part-time, and 6 (6.1%) were unemployed.{{Cite web|url=https://explore.data.stats.govt.nz/vis?fs[0]=2023%20Census%2C0%7CTotals%20by%20topic%23CAT_TOTALS_BY_TOPIC%23&pg=0&fc=Variable%20codes&bp=true&snb=9&df[ds]=ds-nsiws-disseminate&df[id]=CEN23_TBT_012&df[ag]=STATSNZ&df[vs]=1.0&dq=hq011%2Bhq010%2Bhq009%2Bhq008%2Bhq007%2Bhq006%2Bhq005%2Bhq004%2Bhq003%2Bhq002%2Bhq001%2Bhq000%2Bws1%2Bsp99%2Bra80%2Bra08%2Bra07%2Bra06%2Bra05%2Bra01%2Bra04%2Bra03%2Bra02%2Bra00%2Brb1%2Bls66%2Bls03%2Bls02%2Bls05%2Bls04%2Bls01%2Beg6%2Beg5%2Beg4%2Beg3%2Beg2%2Beg1%2BbiTotal%2Bbi0%2Bbi1%2BasTotalLG%2Bas4%2Bas3%2Bas2%2Bas1%2Bws4%2Bws3%2Bws2%2Bge3%2Bge2%2Bge1%2Brc%2BasMed%2BegTotal%2BlsTotal%2BgeTotal%2BrbTotal%2BraTotal%2BhqTotal%2BibTotal%2Bib7%2Bibmed%2BwsTotal.7010847.2013%2B2018%2B2023&to[TIME]=false&ly[rw]=CEN23_TBT_IND_003&ly[cl]=CEN23_YEAR_001|publisher=Stats NZ – Tatauranga Aotearoa – Aotearoa Data Explorer|access-date=3 October 2024|title=Totals by topic for individuals, (RC, TALB, UR, SA3, SA2, Ward, Health), 2013, 2018, and 2023 Censuses|at=7010847}}

The village lies on the edge of greywacke, of the Jurassic Manaia Hill Group, and the peat of the Hauraki graben. Much of the village is built on the Pliocene Puketoka formation between those.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gns.cri.nz/static/qmapdata/newmaps/QWaikato.zip|title=Geology of the Waikato area 1:250 000 geological map 4|last=Edbrooke|first=S. W.|date=2005|website=Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences|access-date=6 January 2019|archive-date=21 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721043747/https://www.gns.cri.nz/static/qmapdata/newmaps/QWaikato.zip|url-status=dead}} That formation has boulders of andesite, quartz vein-stone, cryptocrystalline silica, and banded rhyolite, with cobbles of greywacke, in a poorly cemented bed of pumice silt. The Hauraki rift probably started about 3 million years ago.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gsnz.org.nz/pdf/MP129B_FT2.pdf|title=THE PUKETOKA FORMATION AND THE AGE OF THE HAURAKI GRABEN|last=Bruce Hayward, Hugh Grenfell|date=21 November 2010}} Subsidence now is about {{Convert|1.5|mm||abbr=on}} a year.{{Cite web|url=https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/15935/POSTER%20-%20Riffault_ground%20Motion%20Simulation%20for%20Hauraki%20Rift%20EQs.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|title=Ground motion simulations for Hauraki Rift earthquakes|first1=Jeremy |last1=Riffault |first2=David |last2=Dempsey |first3=Jennifer |last3=Eccles}}

File:1915_Patetonga_and_Kaihere_plans_and_notice_of_auction.jpg

The early inhabitants largely used the wetlands for fishing. Ngāti Hako and Ngāti Pāoa lived in the area when early settlers arrived. The Musket Wars caused much disruption in the 1820s.{{Cite web|url=https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documents/WT/wt_DOC_68330839/Hauraki%20Vol%201.pdf|title=The Hauraki Report Vol.2|date=2006|website=Waitangi Tribunal}}

Government gradually bought the wetlands, including Kaihere, until it controlled enough to enact the Hauraki Plains Act 1908. In 1906 work started on a road to Ohinewai{{cite news|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/parliamentary/appendix-to-the-journals-of-the-house-of-representatives/1907/I/1335|title=APPROPRIATIONS CHARGEABLE ON THE PUBLIC WORKS FUND AND OTHER ACCOUNTS|date=1 January 1907|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|access-date=2019-01-06}} and on cutting the bends in the Piako River below Kaihere Landing.{{cite news|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OG19060209.2.10|title=THE PIAKO SWAMP. OHINEMURI GAZETTE|date=9 February 1906|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|access-date=2019-01-06}} From 1908 stopbanks and drainage canals were built. By March 1915 {{Convert|38994|acre||abbr=on}} had been sold to 294 farmers, mainly for dairying.{{Cite web|url=https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documents/WT/wt_DOC_68331905/Hauraki%20Vol%203.pdf|title=The Hauraki Report Vol.3|date=2006|website=Waitangi Tribunal}}

Flax was milled at Kaihere from the 1890s to the 1940s. Flax growing was set back by fires,{{cite news|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19320130.2.40|title=PEAT FIRES EXTEND. NEW ZEALAND HERALD|date=30 January 1932|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|access-date=2019-01-06}} which were a problem as the peat dried out, following drainage.{{cite news|url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19320930.2.17|title=HAURAKI PEAT LANDS. Recurring fire menace. AUCKLAND STAR|date=30 September 1932|website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|access-date=2019-01-06}}

A 2018 plan will strengthen stopbanks and diversion ponds below Kaihere.

File:1922_steamers_at_Kaihere_Landing.jpg

A telemetry box on SH27, {{Convert|1.4|km||abbr=on}} south of Kaihere{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/maps/@-37.3787736,175.431117,3a,15y,50h,80.05t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1scHLYRvIEostti-tJZVhr1A!2e0!6s//geo2.ggpht.com/cbk?panoid=cHLYRvIEostti-tJZVhr1A&output=thumbnail&cb_client=maps_sv.tactile.gps&thumb=2&w=203&h=100&yaw=137.22829&pitch=0&thumbfov=100|title=1251 State Highway|website=Google Maps|language=en|access-date=2019-01-05}} recorded average traffic up by 31% in the decade 2008 to 2017, from 3,965 to 5,182. 982 (19%) of those were heavy vehicles, mainly trucks.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nzta.govt.nz/assets/resources/state-highway-traffic-volumes/docs/2013-2017-national-telemetry-site-profiles.pdf|title=NZTA 2017 National Telemetry Site Traffic Profile}}

Until 1941 Northern Steamships linked Kaihere Landing with Auckland thrice weekly. Some of the landing is still visible.{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/maps/@-37.3291286,175.5086237,3a,15y,152.41h,86.52t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szRRKlKBluI21vRzBgy6jfA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656|title=668 Kaihere Rd|website=Google Maps|language=en|access-date=2019-01-04}}

Kaihere School is a 2-class rural primary school,{{Cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/kaihere.school.nz/web/about-us|title=Kaihere School - About us|website=sites.google.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-04}}{{cite web |title=Ministry of Education School Profile |url=https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/find-school/school/profile?district=28®ion=5&school=1757 |website=educationcounts.govt.nz |publisher=Ministry of Education}} with a roll of {{NZ school roll data|1757|y}} as of {{NZ school roll data|||y|y||.}}{{cite web |title=Education Review Office Report |url=http://www.ero.govt.nz/report-view?id=1757 |website=ero.govt.nz |publisher=Education Review Office}}

The school has a fort, native bush walk, playing field, netball court and a pool. It is a Silver Enviroschool.

The 1929{{Cite web|url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/keyword/kaihere|title=Kaihere|website=nzhistory.govt.nz|access-date=2019-01-04}} Kaihere war memorial pavilion is listed as Category: A - Heritage Feature in Hauraki District Plan. It is a small timber gabled box cottage, in front of the 1917 Community Hall, with kauri bench seats under the veranda. It was moved from the Domain in Ohinewai Road to the school in 2005,{{Cite web|url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/kaihere-war-memorials|title=Kaihere war memorials|website=nzhistory.govt.nz|access-date=2019-01-04}} was used by the Woman's Institute{{Cite web|url=http://www.hauraki-dc.govt.nz/assets/council_documents/HistoricHeritage/HistoricHeritageSiteHAU071-KaihereCommunityHall.pdf|title=Historic Heritage Inventory Kaihere Community Hall and Pavilion|website=Hauraki District Plan}} and was intended as a library and sports pavilion. A new memorial was dedicated on 25 April 2006, with the moved First World War cairn, a new one for World War 2 and a settlers memorial wall.

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