Corstorphine, New Zealand
Corstorphine | |
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Coordinates: 45°54′16″S 170°28′15″E / 45.9045°S 170.4709°E | |
Country | New Zealand |
City | Dunedin |
Local authority | Dunedin City Council |
Area | |
• Land | 157 ha (388 acres) |
Population (June 2023)[2] | |
• Total | 3,850 |
Calton Hill | Caversham | Forbury |
Concord |
Corstorphine
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St Kilda |
St Clair |
Corstorphine is a
Geography
Corstorphine is a largely residential suburb, containing a substantial amount of state housing built from the 1930s to the 1960s. Its main roads include Middleton Road, Sidey Street, Riselaw Road, and Corstorphine Road. A small group of shops is located at the top of Middleton Road.
To the west is largely rural land, connected via the rural Blackhead Road and Green Island Bush Road to
History
The name "Corstorphine" comes from the house and land owned by early settler John Sidey, who arrived in Dunedin in 1848.[3] It originates from Corstorphine, a village near Edinburgh,[4] though the names are pronounced differently (the Scottish village has the emphasis on the second syllable, rather than the first). Many of the streets in Corstorphine and Kew are named after places in Scotland, among them Skibo Street, Dornoch Street, and Lockerbie Street.
Sidey's son Sir Thomas became a prominent local and national politician during the later nineteenth century. Sidey's residence, Corstorphine House, was built in 1864 and was substantially extended in 1910.[3] It is one of the suburb's main landmarks.
Kew
On the lower slopes lies the smaller suburb of Kew. Here, Easther Crescent — named after the area's first house owner, a naval captain — runs along a terrace at the edge of the hill, connecting with Saint Clair at Allandale Road to the south and descending to Forbury Corner and Caversham in the northeast. Kew Park lies at Forbury Corner, a major suburban road junction, with the area immediately above it occasionally referred to as Kew Rise.[5]
The suburb's name comes from the noted
Demographics
Corstorphine (including Kew) covers 1.57 km2 (0.61 sq mi)[1] and had an estimated population of 3,850 as of June 2023,[2] with a population density of 2,452 people per km2.
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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2006 | 3,357 | — |
2013 | 3,510 | +0.64% |
2018 | 3,618 | +0.61% |
Source: [8] |
Corstorphine had a population of 3,618 at the
Ethnicities were 84.7% European/Pākehā, 10.4% Māori, 5.7% Pasifika, 7.4% Asian, and 3.2% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.
The percentage of people born overseas was 19.0, compared with 27.1% nationally.
Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 52.5% had no religion, 35.2% were Christian, 0.4% had Māori religious beliefs, 0.7% were Hindu, 0.5% were Muslim, 1.0% were Buddhist and 2.2% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 768 (26.5%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 573 (19.8%) people had no formal qualifications. 369 people (12.7%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 1,299 (44.8%) people were employed full-time, 432 (14.9%) were part-time, and 108 (3.7%) were unemployed.[8]
Name | Area (km2) | Population | Density (per km2) | Households | Median age | Median income |
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Kew (Dunedin City) | 0.71 | 1,734 | 2,442 | 732 | 41.8 years | $31,700[9] |
Corstorphine | 0.87 | 1,884 | 2,166 | 783 | 37.7 years | $26,100[10] |
New Zealand | 37.4 years | $31,800 |
Education
Corstorphine School was a contributing primary school serving years 1 to 6, which opened in 1950 and closed in 2010 due to declining roll numbers.[11] The site was sold in 2014.[12]
References
Notes
- ^ a b "ArcGIS Web Application". statsnz.maps.arcgis.com. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
- ^ a b "Population estimate tables - NZ.Stat". Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
- ^ ISBN 0-86868-030-3. p. 47.
- ^ Reed, p. 92
- ^ Olssen, p. 145.
- ^ Reed, p. 211
- ^ Olssen, p. 21.
- ^ a b "Statistical area 1 dataset for 2018 Census". Statistics New Zealand. March 2020. Kew (Dunedin City) (354400) and Corstorphine (354500).
- ^ 2018 Census place summary: Kew (Dunedin City)
- ^ 2018 Census place summary: Corstorphine
- ^ Goodwin, Eileen (28 June 2010). "Fond farewells to Corstorphine School". Otago Daily Times.
- ^ Lewis, John (4 April 2014). "Tenants move out as former school sold". Otago Daily Times.
Bibliography
- Olssen, E. (2014). Working lives c. 1900: A photographic essay. Dunedin: Otago University Press. ISBN 978-1-877578-51-9.
- ISBN 0-589-00933-8.