Dannemora, New Zealand

Dannemora is a suburb in Auckland, New Zealand. It is located in the east of the city, close to Pakuranga and Botany Downs, and in the Howick ward and local board area of Auckland Council.

Geography
Dannemora is an ill-defined area of East Auckland near Chapel Road and Kilkenny Drive, south of Shamrock Park. The area is close to the suburbs of Botany, East Tāmaki Heights and Flat Bush. Areas of Flat Bush such as Topland Drive are also known as Dannemora. The highest point in the area is Puke-i-Āki-Rangi, a 142-metre hill also known as Point View.

Early history
The Dannemora area is part of the rohe of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, who descend from the crew of the Tainui migratory waka, who visited the area around the year 1300. Puke-i-Āki-Rangi was a defended Ngāi Tai pā site. The name literally means "The Hill That Way Propelled Skyward". During the Musket Wars in the 1820s, Ngāi Tai Ki Tāmaki sought temporary refuge in the Waikato.

In 1836, English missionary William Thomas Fairburn brokered a land sale between Tāmaki Māori chiefs covering the majority of modern-day South Auckland and East Auckland. The sale was envisioned as a way to end hostilities in the area, but it is unclear what the chiefs understood or consented to. Māori continued to live in the area, unchanged by this sale. In 1854 when Fairburn's purchase was investigated by the New Zealand Land Commission, a Ngāi Tai reserve was created around the Wairoa River and Umupuia areas, and as a part of the agreement, members of Ngāi Tai agreed to leave their traditional settlements to the west.

In 1847, Howick was established as a defensive outpost for Auckland, by fencibles (retired British Army soldiers) and their families. During the late 19th and 20th centuries, Dannemora was East Tāmaki.

Development of the suburb
Dannemora is a housing development that was constructed in the 1990s and early 2000s. The name Dannemora was chosen by housing developer Wayne Francis, who named it after his horse stud farm in Christchurch. The name ultimately comes from Dannemora, a mining village in Sweden.

Point View School opened in 1997, when the surrounding area was primarily farmland. In 2001, Willowbank Primary School opened in Dannemora. A strip mall called Chapel Road Village opened in Dannemora in 2004, as the first of five planned neighbourhood commercial centres in the wider Flat Bush area.

Demographics
Dannemora covers 2.64 km2 and had an estimated population of as of  with a population density of  people per km2.

Dannemora had a population of 9,678 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 333 people (3.6%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 258 people (2.7%) since the 2006 census. There were 2,910 households, comprising 4,743 males and 4,932 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.96 males per female, with 1,785 people (18.4%) aged under 15 years, 2,064 (21.3%) aged 15 to 29, 4,752 (49.1%) aged 30 to 64, and 1,080 (11.2%) aged 65 or older.

Ethnicities were 34.6% European/Pākehā, 4.2% Māori, 4.4% Pacific peoples, 56.2% Asian, and 7.3% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.

The percentage of people born overseas was 59.9, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 39.4% had no religion, 33.5% were Christian, 0.2% had Māori religious beliefs, 8.8% were Hindu, 4.8% were Muslim, 4.1% were Buddhist and 4.2% had other religions.

Of those at least 15 years old, 2,496 (31.6%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 864 (10.9%) people had no formal qualifications. 1,629 people (20.6%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 4,092 (51.8%) people were employed full-time, 1,074 (13.6%) were part-time, and 270 (3.4%) were unemployed.

Education
Botany Downs Secondary College is a secondary school (years 9–13) with a roll of. The school opened in 2004.

Point View School is a coeducational contributing primary school (years 1–6) with a roll of as of  The school opened in 1997. Willowbank School is a contributing primary school (years 1–6) with a roll of. It opened in 2001 and was named for the oldest remaining house in the East Tāmaki (now a part of Flat Bush), Willowbank Cottage, which was once used as a school. All of these schools are coeducational. Rolls are as of