Spring Creek, New Zealand
Spring Creek is a small town in Marlborough, New Zealand. State Highway 1 runs past the settlement to the west, and the Wairau River flows past to the east. Picton is 22 km to the north, and Blenheim is 6 km to the south. The first European settlers were George Dodson, William Soper, and Dr Vickerman, in 1850. There was a major flood in 1926, when the Wairau River burst its embankments. Wairau Marae is located in Spring Creek. It is the marae (meeting ground) of Ngāti Rārua and Ngāti Toa Rangatira, and includes the Wairau wharenui (meeting house). Spring Creek has a railway classification yard on the Main North Line. Demographics Spring Creek is defined by Statistics New Zealand as a rural settlement. It covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. It is part of the larger Spring Creek-Grovetown statistical area. Spring Creek had a population of 576 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 33 people (6.1%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 3 people (0.5%) since the 2006 census. There were 204 households, comprising 315 males and 258 females, giving a sex ratio