Longlands, New Zealand
Longlands is a rural community in the Hastings District and Hawke's Bay Region of New Zealand's North Island. The area is on the southern and western outskirts of Hastings city. The Longlands Estate occupied much of the land around 1880, but was broken up into smaller farms and a freezing works in the early 20th century. The area is a centre for growing fruit and vegetables. Demographics Longlands (including Irongate and Pakipaki, covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Longlands had a population of 2,253 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 204 people (10.0%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 162 people (7.7%) since the 2006 census. There were 762 households, comprising 1,182 males and 1,074 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.1 males per female, with 426 people (18.9%) aged under 15 years, 366 (16.2%) aged 15 to 29, 1,071 (47.5%) aged 30 to 64, and 396 (17.6%) aged 65 or older. Ethnicities were 82.3% European/Pākehā, 20.1% Māori, 5.9% Pacific peoples, 2.9% Asian, and 2.3% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity. The percentage of people born overseas was 16.6, compared