Suburb in Christchurch, New Zealand
Moncks Bay
is a south-eastern suburb of
Christchurch
, New Zealand.
The first European owner of 100 acres (40 ha) in Moncks Bay was George Heath, who arrived in
Lyttelton
in March 1851 on the
Isabella Hercus
. He also had 500 acres (200 ha) of land on the hills behind. Heath sold the land to William McCormack in 1860; McCormacks Bay in the adjacent suburb
Mount Pleasant
is named for his brother. Moncks Bay changed owner again in 1868, and was purchased in 1869 by
John Stanley Monck
, after whom the area was named.
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Monck increased his land holdings up the hill by purchasing adjacent property from Dr
Alfred Charles Barker
(50 acres or 20 hectares) and in 1882, he acquired land from the estate of Alfred Watson that brought his holdings in
Redcliffs
to a total of about 300 acres (120 ha).
Demographics
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Moncks Bay is part of the
Clifton Hill
SA2 statistical area.
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Historical population
Year
| Pop.
| ±% p.a.
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2006
| 465
| ?
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2013
| 483
| +0.54%
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2018
| 486
| +0.12%
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Source:
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Moncks Bay, comprising the SA1 statistical areas of 7026568?570, covers 0.57 km
2
(0.22 sq mi).
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It had a population of 486 at the
2018 New Zealand census
, an increase of 3 people (0.6%) since the
2013 census
, and an increase of 21 people (4.5%) since the
2006 census
. There were 198 households. There were 228 males and 255 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.89 males per female, with 105 people (21.6%) aged under 15 years, 63 (13.0%) aged 15 to 29, 204 (42.0%) aged 30 to 64, and 114 (23.5%) aged 65 or older.
Ethnicities were 95.7% European/P?keh?, 6.8% M?ori, 0.6% Pacific peoples, 3.7% Asian, and 0.6% other ethnicities (totals add to more than 100% since people could identify with multiple ethnicities).
Although some people objected to giving their religion, 54.3% had no religion, 38.3% were Christian and 1.9% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 162 (42.5%) people had a bachelor or higher degree, and 33 (8.7%) people had no formal qualifications. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 174 (45.7%) people were employed full-time, 75 (19.7%) were part-time, and 9 (2.4%) were unemployed.
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