Matapihi is a suburb and peninsula of Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand's North Island, surrounded on most sides by the Tauranga Harbour.

State Highway 29A runs through the suburb along this diagonal.

The percentage of people born overseas was 4.5, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 35.4% had no religion, 32.5% were Christian, 26.7% had Māori religious beliefs and 0.4% had other religions.

[3] Matapihi has two marae: Te Kura o Matapihi is a co-educational Māori language immersion state primary school for Year 1 to 6 students,[6] with a roll of 199 as of November 2024.