Taradale, New Zealand

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Suburb in Napier, New Zealand

Taradale
Suburb
From top, left to right: War memorial clock tower, Trig point atop Sugar Loaf, former Taradale Hotel, Mission Estate, All Saint's Church, Old Town Hall
Coordinates: 39°32′S 176°51′E / 39.533°S 176.850°E / -39.533; 176.850
Country	New Zealand
City	Napier
Local authority	Napier City Council
Electoral ward	Taradale Ward
Area [1]
• Land	1,063 ha (2,627 acres)
Population  (June 2024)[2]
• Total	12,940
Postcode(s)	4112

Puketapu	Poraiti	Greenmeadows
	Taradale	Meeanee
Waiohiki		Pakowhai

Taradale is a suburb of the City of Napier, in the Hawke's Bay Region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is a predominantly middle-upper class residential suburb, located 10 kilometres southwest of the centre of Napier. The Taradale ward, which includes Greenmeadows, Meeanee, and Poraiti, had a population of 22,809 in the 2018 New Zealand census.^[3]

For hundreds of years, hills overlooking what is now Taradale were the site of villages occupied by Māori people, latterly of the Ngāti Kahungunu tribe. Europeans started settling at Taradale in the 1850s, and it was officially recognised as a town in 1886. It was a town district from 1886 to 1953, and a borough from 1953 to 1968, when it merged with Napier City.^[4] The Taradale area is home to some of New Zealand's oldest and finest vineyards and wineries, with a wine-making heritage dating back to the 1850s.