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Far North District CouncilPopulation forecast

Russell and Rawhiti and Surrounds

About the forecast areas

The 2020 population forecast for Russell and Rawhiti and Surrounds is 3,385, and is forecast to fall to 3,179 by 2043.

Russell and Rawhiti and Surrounds is bounded by the Pacific Ocean in the north and east, the Whangarei District in the south, and the localities of Ngapuhi-Kaikou, Moerewa and Waihou Valley-Hupara and the Bay of Islands in the west.

Russell is named after Lord John Russell, Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1839 and later Prime Minister of Britain.


