Glenfield, New Zealand

Glenfield
Basic information
Local authority	Auckland Council
Population	4,554 (2006)
Surrounds
North	Glenfield North
Northeast	Forrest Hill
East	Wairau Valley
Southeast	Hillcrest
South	Marlborough
West	Witheford Heights
Northwest	Bayview

Glenfield (called Mayfield until 1912) is a suburb on Auckland's North Shore.

The population of Central Glenfield was 4,554 in the 2006 Census, an increase of 240 from 2001. Glenfield North has an additional 4,050 people, and parts of the census area of Kaipatiki, with 4,128 people, might also be considered as part of Glenfield.

It is located to the north of the Waitemata Harbour, nine kilometres northwest of the Auckland city centre. The suburb is located in the northern inland part of the North Shore, and is surrounded by the suburbs of Marlborough, Sunnynook, Forrest Hill, Birkenhead, Northcote, Windy Ridge, and is situated close to Takapuna. The northern part of Glenfield is regarded as a separate suburb known as Glenfield North. This latter suburb is sited close to State Highway 1 as it stretches north towards Albany.

Glenfield has two main areas of commerce. One is the Glenfield Mall and the surrounding shops. The other is Wairau Valley, which is a former industrial area that is now a mixture of commercial and industrial properties.

The area was originally named Mayfield, but the existence of Mayfield in Canterbury meant that the name was never officially bestowed upon the area by the postal service. On 12 March 1912, the area was officially named by the postal service as Glenfield. The former name lives on in Mayfield Road, a quiet side road several hundred metres north of the Glenfield shops.

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