Kawaha Point is a suburb of Rotorua in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island.

[3] In 1917 a son of businessman and politician, Robert Gillies, Arthur William Gillies (1871[4]-1940),[5] started the development of Kawaha Point, when he offered an area for a hospital, on condition that the government improve the road.

The percentage of people born overseas was 21.8, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 48.7% had no religion, 36.4% were Christian, 2.5% had Māori religious beliefs, 1.4% were Hindu, 0.5% were Muslim, 1.1% were Buddhist and 2.4% had other religions.

[18] Ngongotahā cycleway, which was opened in 2012,[19] runs to the west of Kawaha.