[4][5] Ngataki is in two SA1 statistical areas which cover 219.98 km2 (84.93 sq mi)[1] and include Rarawa Beach and the peninsula on the east side of Houhora Harbour and part of Ninety Mile Beach on the west side of Aupouri Peninsula.

The results were 56.6% European (Pākehā), 66.3% Māori, 4.8% Pasifika, and 4.8% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander".

[12] In December 2008, school students planted one hundred and twenty rare coastal Holloway's Crystalwort – Atriplex hollowayi plants, small native herbs that grow near high tide level on sandy beaches.

In 2009, Ngataki School and the New Zealand Department of Conservation worked together to help restore the beach, a home to dotterels and oystercatchers, because the ecosystem was under threat as a result of natural and man-made causes.

[15] In 2011, day four of the National Scholastic Surfing Championship was held at Rarawa Beach.