Akina is a suburb of Hastings City, in the Hawke's Bay Region of New Zealand's North Island.

The percentage of people born overseas was 19.3, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 48.0% had no religion, 33.7% were Christian, 2.3% had Māori religious beliefs, 2.9% were Hindu, 1.2% were Muslim, 0.5% were Buddhist and 5.1% had other religions.

[11] Hastings Christian School is a co-educational Year 1–13 state-integrated Christian school,[12][13] with a roll of 322 as of November 2024.

[9][14] It started in 1987 as a primary school, and bought its current site in 1992.