Ōmāpere is a settlement on the south shore of Hokianga Harbour in Northland, New Zealand.

[4] The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "place of cutty grass" for Ōmāpere.

[5] The first European settler in the Ōmāpere area was John Martin, who arrived in the Hokianga Harbour in 1827.

With permission from Ngāti Korokoro, the local hapū (sub-tribe), in 1838 John Whiteley established a Wesleyan mission at Pākanae on land purchased with blankets, tools and tobacco.

By the latter 19th century, Ōmāpere became an important location for the kauri gum digging trade.

The settlement is part of the larger Waipoua Forest statistical area.

The results were 57.7% European (Pākehā); 60.4% Māori; 3.4% Pasifika; 5.4% Asian; 0.7% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders (MELAA); and 2.7% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander".