Rukuhia is a rural community in the Waipa District and Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island.

It is located just south of the Hamilton suburb of Glenview, west of the Waikato District town of Tamahere and north of the Waipa towns of Ōhaupō and Te Awamutu, on State Highway 3.

[3] The Rukuhia School First World War Memorial was unveiled in June 1923, on the sixth anniversary of the Battle of Messines.

[4] The Rukuhia railway station was a station on the North Island Main Trunk in New Zealand,[5][6] established during the extension of the railway line in the 1870s.

[7][8] Tests in 1981 found that the track deformed by about 12mm each time a train went over it, due to the peat swamp.

[10] Lake Cameron statistical area covers 51.52 km2 (19.89 sq mi)[1] and had an estimated population of 1,750 as of June 2024,[11] with a population density of 34 people per km2.

The percentage of people born overseas was 21.1, compared with 27.1% nationally.