Flaxmere

Flaxmere is a suburb in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand's North Island. It is located North-west to the town of Hastings City, and is regarded as a suburb of its larger neighbor. It had a (2010) population of 10,400 according to the Hastings Council. It is located in the Hastings Metropolitan Area. It is also known by the Maori name of Paharakeke. Flaxmere was built to cater to the housing demand of Hastings. Flaxmere was intended to be an upper-middle class subdivision but because land was subdivided into smaller lots it turned into a low income neighbourhood. Flaxmere has one of the highest social deprivation index values of the Napier-Hastings metropolitan area, only being exceeded by the suburbs of Camberley and Maraenui. The...