Ruawai (Māori: Ruāwai) is a small town located 30 km south of Dargaville in Northland, New Zealand.

The name literally translated from Maori means 'two waters' referring to the nearby Northern Wairoa River and Kaipara Harbour.

[3] The local Naumai Marae and Ngā Uri o te Kotahitanga meeting house is a traditional meeting place for Ngāti Whātua and Te Uri o Hau.

[4][5] Ruawai was a location for the late 19th/early 20th century kauri gum digging trade.

The results were 78.1% European (Pākehā); 41.2% Māori; 3.8% Pasifika; 2.5% Asian; and 0.6% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders (MELAA).

The results were 83.9% European (Pākehā); 28.6% Māori; 4.1% Pasifika; 2.4% Asian; 0.5% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders (MELAA); and 3.9% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander".

[12] Ruawai College is a secondary (years 7-13) school with a roll of 158 students as of November 2024.

[16] In December 1995, Ruawai College installed a 128 kbit/s DDS leased line connection that delivered internet services and offered dialup internet with IGRIN billing the service (IGRIN has since purchased by Orcon).

At the time, only a handful of schools nationally had a campus-wide, hard wired internet service.