Te Kao is a village on the Aupōuri Peninsula of Northland, New Zealand.

Te Aupōuri are mana whenua (tribe with traditional authority over a territory) over Te Kao and the surrounding district, and it is the principal settlement of the iwi (tribe).

[2][3] The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "the dried kūmara" for Te Kao.

The results were 24.6% European (Pākehā); 88.5% Māori; 11.5% Pasifika; 4.9% Asian; 1.6% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders (MELAA); and 3.3% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander".

[11] In October 2020, the Government committed $220,442 from the Provincial Growth Fund to upgrade the marae, creating 9 jobs.

[17] It became a designated character school at the start of 2019,[18] and extended to include years 9 and 10 in 2020.