In the s, Garden Place Hill, one of the many small hills sometimes referred to as the Hamilton Hills, was removed by unemployed workers working with picks and shovels and model T Ford trucks.
The Western remains of the hill are retained by a large concrete wall. The original hill ran from the present Wintec site eastwards to the old post office now casino. Lake Rotoroa Hamilton Lake began forming about 20, years ago. Originally it was part of an ancient river system that was cut off by deposition material and became two small lakes divided by a narrow peninsula. With higher rainfall and drainage from the extensive peat land to the west, the water level rose so the narrow peninsula was drowned so forming one larger lake.
Nighttime temperatures are even cooler outside of the city. Hamilton also features very high humidity similar to tropical climates such as Singapore which can make temperatures feel much warmer or colder than they are. Ground frosts are common and snow is possible but rare. The only recorded snowfall in modern times was light snowflakes in mid-August during a prolonged cold period that saw snowfall as far north as Dargaville.
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Hamilton receives considerable precipitation amounting to around 1,mm over days per year. This coupled with annual sunshine hours of around 2, makes Hamilton and the surrounding Waikato an extremely fertile region. Typically summers are dry and winters wet. Fog is common during winter mornings, especially close to the Waikato River which runs through the city centre.
Hamilton is one of the foggiest cities on earth, however, fog usually burns off by noon to produce sunny and calm winter days. Hamilton is growing annually, with populations of , for the urban area and , for the territorial authority June s. Hamilton City had a population of , at the New Zealand census , an increase of 19, people There were 54, households.
There were 78, males and 82, females, giving a sex ratio of 0.
The median age was Ethnicities were Although some people objected to giving their religion, Of those at least 15 years old, 32, The employment status of those at least 15 was that 62, The main area of population growth is in the Flagstaff -Rototuna area. With its large tertiary student population at Wintec and Waikato University , approximately 40, tertiary students, Hamilton has a significant transient population.
In the census, Roman Catholicism was the largest Christian denomination with Hinduism 2. Hamilton is located in the administrative area of the Hamilton City Council. The council consists of thirteen councillors and a mayor currently Paula Southgate , The council has two wards constituencies , east and west, with the boundary between the two being the Waikato River.
Council elections are held every three years and most recently in October Hamilton City is itself part of the Waikato region, controlled administratively by the Waikato Regional Council. Both Hamilton East and Hamilton West electorates are considered bellwether seats. The electorates are currently represented by:.
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Education and research are important to the city—Hamilton is home to two institutes of higher education, the University of Waikato and the Waikato Institute of Technology Wintec. Research at the Ruakura research centres have been responsible for much of New Zealand's innovation in agriculture. Hamilton's main revenue source is the dairy industry, due to its location in the centre of New Zealand's largest dairying area. Hamilton annually hosts the National Agricultural Fieldays at Mystery Creek, the southern hemisphere's biggest agricultural trade exhibition.
Manufacturing and retail are also important to the local economy, as is the provision of health services through the Waikato Hospital. The city is home to New Zealand's largest aircraft manufacturer, Pacific Aerospace , which manufactured its 1,th aircraft in August , and previously Micro Aviation NZ which manufactured and exported high-quality microlight aircraft. Hamilton is also the home of Gallagher Group Ltd, a manufacturer and exporter of electric fencing and security systems. Employing people Gallagher has been doing business in Hamilton since Hamilton is also home to Vickers Aircraft Company , a startup aircraft manufacturer making a carbon fibre amphibious aircraft called the Wave.
Recent years have seen the firm establishment of the New Zealand base of the British flight training organisation L3. L3 trains over airline pilots a year at its crew training centre at Hamilton Airport.
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Tainui Group Holdings Ltd, the commercial arm of the Waikato tribe, is one of Hamilton's largest property developers. The Waikato tribe is one of the city's largest landowners. It has developed the large retail centre The Base in the old Te Rapa airforce base site which was returned to Tainui, following confiscation in the s, as part of a Treaty of Waitangi settlement.
In a further stage was opened, with cinemas, restaurants, shops and an underground carpark. After Farmers Hamilton moves from its existing site on corner of Alexandra and Collingwood streets into the redeveloped Centre Place in late , [82] each major mall will have the department store as an anchor tenant. The western suburb of Frankton is home to a smaller shopping centre and long-standing local furniture and home department store Forlongs.
It stands on the former site of the Embassy Cinema, where O'Brien watched science fiction-double features.
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The city is host to a large number of small galleries and the Waikato Museum. It is also home to one of the country's premier experimental black box theatres , The Meteor Theatre. Hamilton is host to several large scale music festivals including the Soundscape music festival , which is one of New Zealand's largest street parties. The local colours are red, yellow and black, and the provincial mascot is Mooloo, an anthropomorphic cow.
Both teams play at Waikato Stadium. It is the home ground of the Northern Districts Cricket Association. Hamilton is fast becoming a motorsport venue as well. A round of the WRC was held in and the annual V8 Supercars race on a street circuit started in and ended in Sailing takes place on Hamilton lake for 9 months of the year. Motor boats are not allowed on the lake, with an exception of the Yacht Club rescue boats. Each year in April, Hamilton supports the '5 Bridges' swimming challenge.
The swim is assisted by the current, with the full distance typically covered in under an hour. The event celebrated its 71st year on 11 April The major daily newspaper is the Waikato Times. Hamilton Gardens is the region's most popular tourist attraction and hosts the Hamilton Gardens Summer Festival each year.
The Base is New Zealand's second largest shopping centre, with over 7. Te Awa, an enclosed speciality retail mall at The Base, was awarded a silver medal by the International Council of Shopping Centres for the second-best expansion in the Asia Pacific region.
Hamilton has six public libraries located throughout the city with the Central Library housing the main reference and heritage collection. Hamilton City Theaters provides professional venue and event management at two of the three theatrical venues in the city: Founders Theatre closed since , [98] and Clarence St Theater.
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The Meteor theatre was bought by the One Victoria Trust in after the Hamilton City Council proposed the sale of the theatre and is now privately operated. There is also St Mary's Roman Catholic cathedral on the opposite side of the river. It was opened along with the Church College of New Zealand , a large high school owned by the church, in the late s. Both the college and the temple were built by labour missionaries.
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The school was closed in December Every year, the temple hosts a large Christmas lighting show which attracts large crowds from all over the country. Hamilton's public hospital is Waikato Hospital with beds and a staff of approximately 2, located between Melville and Hamilton West. Hamilton Airport serves as a domestic airport. It is jointly owned by Hamilton City and neighbouring district councils.
The airport is located just outside Hamilton's boundary, within the Waipa District. The airport also served as a major base for now defunct low-cost airlines Freedom Air and Kiwi Air. Virgin Australia offered three international flights a week, to and from Brisbane Airport and Sydney Airport. However, all international flights have now been discontinued, primarily due to a small market. The airport is the base for pilot training schools and the aircraft manufacturer, Pacific Aerospace, is located at the northern end of the runway. New Zealand's main road artery State Highway 1 runs through several of Hamilton's suburbs and connects with State Highway 3 at a major intersection within the city boundaries.
The Hamilton section of the Waikato Expressway , due for completion in , or possibly , [] will shift SH 1 to the east of Hamilton City, effectively bypassing the city and easing congestion between commuting city traffic and through traffic. The road was gradually upgraded and renamed. As well as being bypassed by the Expressway, Hamilton will also have the Ring Road and, prior to those, the city centre was bypassed by Anglesea Street in [] and the main road diverted from the north end of Victoria Street [] onto Ulster Street, which was extended to absorb Gurnell Avenue and form a 4-lane main road, [] by putting Waitewhiriwhiri Stream in a culvert and filling the valley.
The Hamilton Ring Road project was initiated to free some of the city's streets from peak-traffic congestion and improve connectivity around the city. It consists of five segments, opening between and It was originally named Southern Outlet. To the west and south, Greenwood Street, which had existed since , was extended south to Kahikatea Drive, [] which was named in [] and opened about The next part of the ring road, on the western side, opened when SH1 was diverted from the city centre to run east of the city, through Nawton from 1 July Wairere Drive forms the north east part of the ring road.
The land for it was gazetted in [] [] and the road was on the map. Traffic at Pukete Bridge in was 25, vehicles a day. In it was noted that a drop in passenger numbers on the Orbiter bus correlated with opening of the extension to Cambridge Rd in The final part of the ring road will be the Southern Links, through Peacocke.
The six road bridges that cross the river [] are often the focus of morning and evening traffic delays. The six road bridges within the city are from north to south :. The Narrows bridge was closed for reconstruction of its piles in September The bridge was expanded to 4 lanes in early Hamilton has buses linking the CBD to most of its suburbs and an Orbiter service linking many of those suburbs to each other, to suburban shopping centres, the hospital, university, etc. In , a study was done into a possible re-introduction of daily commuter train services to Auckland and the benefits that might flow from it.
Hamilton's rail network serves as a major hub for the distribution of dairy products to the ports of Auckland and Tauranga. This hub is located on Crawford St, on land that was formerly part of the Te Rapa Marshalling Yard , just north of the locomotive depot. From the arrival of the railway in Hamilton, Frankton was a railway town. In , the suburb became even more railway-orientated when the Frankton Junction Railway House Factory opened, producing the famous George Troup designed railway houses sent to many North Island railway settlements, which are now sought-after pieces of real estate.