Stoke, New Zealand

Stoke is a suburb of Nelson in New Zealand, located between Richmond and Tāhunanui. Stoke was named by William Songer, the personal servant of Arthur Wakefield, after his birthplace Stoke-by-Nayland in Suffolk.
In 2010 it was voted the "Keep New Zealand Beautiful People's Choice Best Place in New Zealand".
A group of streets in Stoke, between Main Road Stoke and Nayland Road, are named after famous literary figures: Baxter, Browning, Byron, Coleridge, Dickens, Keats, Kipling, Holcroft, Homer, Marlowe, Masefield, Rossetti, Sargeson, Shelley, Tennyson, and Wordsworth.

Facilities

Saxton Field is an outdoor sports ground with softball, cricket, football, and hockey fields, a court for netball and an archery programme.
Saxton Stadium is a home of indoor sports such as futsal, handball, table tennis and volleyball, and the home of the basketball team Nelson Giants.
Isel Park is an historic park and house, which form part of the legacy left by the Marsden family of Stoke. It includes the Isel Park research facility which is part of the Nelson Provincial Museum.
The Stoke Hand sculpture is located outside Stoke library.

Demographics

Stoke covers. It had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km².
Before the 2023 census, Stoke had a smaller boundary, covering. Using that boundary, Stoke had a population of 18,672 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 1,884 people since the 2013 census, and an increase of 3,489 people since the 2006 census. There were 7,221 households, comprising 8,889 males and 9,792 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.91 males per female, with 3,237 people aged under 15 years, 2,991 aged 15 to 29, 8,088 aged 30 to 64, and 4,353 aged 65 or older.
Ethnicities were 89.7% European/Pākehā, 10.4% Māori, 2.3% Pasifika, 4.4% Asian, and 2.1% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.
The percentage of people born overseas was 17.7, compared with 27.1% nationally.
Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 53.8% had no religion, 35.4% were Christian, 0.3% had Māori religious beliefs, 0.5% were Hindu, 0.1% were Muslim, 0.7% were Buddhist and 2.0% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 2,466 people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 3,393 people had no formal qualifications. 1,866 people earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 6,930 people were employed full-time, 2,394 were part-time, and 396 were unemployed.

Name	Area	Population	Density	Households	Median age	Median income
Broadgreen-Monaco	1.14	2,376	2,084	927	44.2 years	$27,500
Nayland	0.84	1,899	2,261	717	38.5 years	$30,300
Aldinga	1.11	3,168	2,854	1,236	51.1 years	$26,500
Maitlands	0.77	2,148	2,790	867	41.5 years	$31,300
Saxton	3.86	57	15	27	37.1 years	$31,900
Suffolk	2.00	2,721	1,361	1,041	53.1 years	$27,000
Omaio	5.47	3,387	619	1,311	44.0 years	$26,800
Enner Glynn	7.06	2,916	413	1,095	41.9 years	$34,600
New Zealand					37.4 years	$31,800

Education

Stoke School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 6 students/ It has a roll of as of.
Nelson Christian Academy is a co-educational private Christian primary school for Year 1 to 8 students. It has a roll of.
Local high schools include Nayland College, a state school in Nayland, and Garin College, a Catholic school in Richmond.