Sheltered from the Tasman Sea by the Waitākere Ranges, the area was traditionally dominated by forests of kauri, Phyllocladus trichomanoides (tānekaha or celery pine) and rimu, with abundant nīkau palm and silver fern.

[3] The area is within the traditional rohe of Te Kawerau ā Maki, an iwi that traces their ancestry to some of the earliest inhabitants of the Auckland Region.

[4] West Auckland was known as Hikurangi, and the upper catchments of Te Wai-o-Pareira / Henderson Creek were known as Ōkaurirahi, a reference to the mature kauri forests of the area.

[5] During the early colonial days of Auckland, much of modern Konini and Kaurilands was owned by Liverpool immigrant Hibernia Smythe, who aggregated 550 acres of land between 1854 and 1857 north of Titirangi.

Smythe used the land for wood and logging, as well as farming sheep and cattle.

[8] In the early 20th century, Kaurilands was various described as a part of Titirangi or Waikumete (modern Glen Eden).

[9] Kaurilands School was opened in 1954,[10] and the area's first post office was built on Withers Road in 1964.

The results were 80.2% European (Pākehā); 12.2% Māori; 5.2% Pasifika; 15.2% Asian; 2.6% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders (MELAA); and 2.3% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander".