Maraenui is a suburb of the city of Napier, in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand's eastern North Island.

[3] The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "great marae" for Maraenui.

[4] It is a lower socio-economic neighbourhood with a mix of owner occupied and state-owned Housing New Zealand properties, and has a high rate of synthetic drug use.

The percentage of people born overseas was 12.1, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 49.3% had no religion, 31.2% were Christian, 11.6% had Māori religious beliefs, 0.2% were Hindu, 0.5% were Muslim, 0.5% were Buddhist and 1.2% had other religions.