[4] The suburb was known as Stanley Bay until December 2007 when The New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) officially named the suburb as Stanley Point.

[5] [6] The area is named after Owen Stanley, captain of HMS Britomart (1808),[7] who conducted a survey of the Waitematā Harbour in 1841.

The results were 89.2% European (Pākehā); 9.4% Māori; 3.5% Pasifika; 5.9% Asian; 1.5% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders (MELAA); and 2.0% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander".

The percentage of people born overseas was 31.6, compared with 28.8% nationally.

Of those at least 15 years old, 744 (45.5%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, 723 (44.2%) had a post-high school certificate or diploma, and 162 (9.9%) people exclusively held high school qualifications.