Saint Marys Bay is an inner suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.
Demographics
Saint Marys Bay covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2.
Saint Marys Bay had a population of 2,205 at the 2018 New Zealand census, a decrease of 81 people (−3.5%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 36 people (1.7%) since the 2006 census. There were 978 households, comprising 1,089 males and 1,116 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.98 males per female. The median age was 44.6 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 204 people (9.3%) aged under 15 years, 435 (19.7%) aged 15 to 29, 1,143 (51.8%) aged 30 to 64, and 420 (19.0%) aged 65 or older.
Ethnicities were 87.2% European/Pākehā, 6.4% Māori, 3.0% Pacific peoples, 9.1% Asian, and 2.4% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.
The percentage of people born overseas was 30.9, compared with 27.1% nationally.
Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 54.1% had no religion, 34.1% were Christian, 0.1% had Māori religious beliefs, 1.1% were Hindu, 0.7% were Muslim, 0.8% were Buddhist and 3.1% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 984 (49.2%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 120 (6.0%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $58,400, compared with $31,800 nationally. 834 people (41.7%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 1,155 (57.7%) people were employed full-time, 255 (12.7%) were part-time, and 63 (3.1%) were unemployed.
Historical timeline
1700s
Point Erin, to the western side of the bay (underneath the Auckland Harbour Bridge) was the location of a Māori pā called Okā, or Te Koraenga ("the headland"). Tāmaki Māori traditionally used the pā as a fishing base during the summer shark fishing season. Saint Marys Bay was known as Ko Takere Haere ("the split canoe hull"), recalling an incident where a waka that was being taken ashore by slaves broke.
1800s
mid-1840s George Scott farms the land where Three Lamps is now.
1853 For £1100 Catholic Bishop Pompallier purchases in the area between Three Lamps and the shoreline from James O’Neill, christening it Mount Saint Mary.
1854 O’Neill's house becomes St. Anne's School for Maori Girls run by the Sisters of Mercy. Responding to a Maori request for holy women to teach the children, the sisters of Mercy arrived in Auckland from Ireland in 1850 already fluent in the Maori language. Their first school and orphanage was situated near St Patrick's Cathedral in Federal Street in the CBD.
1854 St Mary's College for Catechists on the North Shore is transferred to Ponsonby. St. Marys School for Boys and a Seminary are built on of Crown Grant land at the end of Waitemata Street.
1858 The wooden Church of the Immaculate Conception is built. [Demolished 1869–70, present site of the Ponsonby Tennis Club].
1859 New Street is put through the middle of the St Mary Mount estate and Bishop Pompallier presents land on the eastern side of the street for the creation of St. Mary's College. Almost unaided the sisters erect a three-storey convent building and open it in 1861. The only surviving building from this period is the Kauri St Mary's Chapel constructed in 1865 by Edward Mahoney for £1100.
1860s Many Roman Catholics buy land in the new subdivisions in order to be near the Catholic centre with its church, convent and schools. Names such as "Dublin" and "Green" reflect this development.
1860 Bishop Pompallier returns from Europe with a group of French nuns. They form under his direction, the Congregation of the Holy Family, which concentrates on teaching Maori girls.
1861 St. Anne's boarding school occupies O'Neill's former house.
1862 The Convent is completed. The new order of the Holy Family takes over teaching at the school. The order now consists of Maori and French Sisters.
1862 The Bishop takes over O'Neill's former house as his official residence.
1863 The Bishop sells more land, retaining the with the Bishop's House, The Church of the Holy Family and the Convent of the Holy Family. The Nazareth Institute for Maori and Half-Caste Girls is founded.
1866 St. Mary's Convent, with its dormitories and chapel is built.
1865-68 The Suffolk Hotel [now the Cavalier Tavern] is built on College Hill.