Clendon Park is a suburb of Auckland in northern New Zealand.
The suburb is in the Manurewa-Papakura ward,[3] one of the 21 local boards of Auckland Council.
[4] Clendon Park is named after Captain James Reddy Clendon who in 1840 traded land he owned in the Bay of Islands with the newly formed New Zealand Government for 10,000 acres (40 km2) of land, then south of Auckland CBD.
[5] The name Clendon Park was chosen in October 1976 by the Manukau City Council.
The results were 15.3% European (Pākehā); 29.2% Māori; 54.7% Pasifika; 19.5% Asian; 1.0% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders (MELAA); and 0.5% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander".
[8] Of those at least 15 years old, 609 (9.9%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, 2,979 (48.7%) had a post-high school certificate or diploma, and 2,532 (41.4%) people exclusively held high school qualifications.
Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Manurewa is a full primary school (years 1–8), with a roll of 102.