Tiroa is a rural locality in the Waitomo District and Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island.

[4] Pao Mīere, a Māori prophetic movement, built a cross-shaped whare wānanga (house of learning) called Te Miringa Te Kakara near Tiroa about 1887.

[5][6][7] Tiroa School operated from about 1900[8][9] with the buildings replaced in 1925.

Ethnicities were 57.1% European/Pākehā, 50.0% Māori, 7.1% Pacific peoples, and 7.1% Asian.

The percentage of people born overseas was 14.3, compared with 27.1% nationally.