[3] The local board area includes the suburbs of Ōtara, Papatoetoe, East Tāmaki, Puhinui and central Manukau.

[5] Ethnicities were 14.6% European/Pākehā, 15.8% Māori, 48.7% Pasifika, 35.4% Asian, 1.0% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders, and 0.4% other.

[5] Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board Area had a population of 85,122 at the 2018 New Zealand census.

The percentage of people born overseas was 45.7, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 18.2% had no religion, 48.5% were Christian, 1.6% had Māori religious beliefs, 12.0% were Hindu, 4.7% were Muslim, 2.0% were Buddhist and 7.8% had other religions.