{{Short description|Rural locality in Tasman, New Zealand}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Upper Moutere | settlement_type = Rural locality | image_skyline = Upper Moutere (center of village).jpg | imagesize = | image_alt = | image_caption = Centre of village | area_footnotes = <ref name="Area"/> | area_total_km2 = 34.82 | population_footnotes = <ref name="Census 2023"/> | population_as_of = 2023 Census | population_total = 432 | population_density_km2 = auto | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 11 | pushpin_map = | pushpin_mapsize = | coordinates = {{coord|-41.270|173.006|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = New Zealand | subdivision_type1 = [[Territorial authorities of New Zealand|Territorial authority]] | subdivision_name1 = [[Tasman District|Tasman]] | subdivision_type2 = Ward | subdivision_name2 = Moutere-Waimea Ward | seat_type = [[New Zealand electorates|Electorates]] | seat = {{ubl|[[West Coast-Tasman]]|[[Te Tai Tonga]] ([[Māori electorates|Māori]])}} | government_footnotes = | leader_title = Territorial Authority | leader_name = [[Tasman District Council]] | leader_title1 = [[Mayor of Tasman]] | leader_name1 = {{NZ officeholder data|Tasman District Mayor|y}} | leader_title2 = [[West Coast-Tasman|West Coast-Tasman MP]] | leader_name2 = {{NZ officeholder data|West Coast-Tasman MP|y}} | leader_title3 = [[Te Tai Tonga|Te Tai Tonga MP]] | leader_name3 = {{NZ officeholder data|Te Tai Tonga MP|y}} | timezone1 = [[Time in New Zealand|New Zealand Standard Time]] | utc_offset1 = +12 | timezone1_DST = [[Time in New Zealand|New Zealand Daylight Time]] | utc_offset1_DST = +13 | postal_code_type = [[Postcodes in New Zealand|Postcode]] | postal_code = 7173 | area_code_type = | area_code = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Upper Moutere''' (originally called '''Sarau''' by its founding German settlers) is a locality in the [[Tasman District]] near [[Motueka]] at the top of [[New Zealand]]'s [[South Island]].<ref>{{LINZ|50534||26 May 2007}}</ref>

==History== {{Moresources|section|date=November 2017}} As early as 1839 the [[New Zealand Company]] had resolved to "take steps to procure German emigrants" and appointed a Mr Bockelman as agent of the Company in [[Bremen]]. In September 1841 the Company made an agreement in principle to sell the Chatham Islands to the Hamburg-based ''Deutsche Colonisation-Gesellschaft'', but the British Government thwarted this move.

However, [[Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby|Lord Stanley]], then the British [[Secretary of State for War and the Colonies]], did agree to make the German colonists instant British subjects upon arrival in Nelson after being vetted in [[Hamburg]] first.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}

Most of the 140 German immigrants who arrived on the ship ''St Pauli'' in 1843<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/germans/page-3|title=Germans – Early settlements|last1=Bade|first1=James N.|work=Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand|access-date=16 November 2017|quote=The first group of Germans arrived on the St Pauli in 1843, and founded the village of St Paulidorf in the Moutere valley, near Nelson. Bad flooding forced the abandonment of the village scarcely a year after it began, and now nothing remains but farmland. [...] Around 1850, some Germans returned to Moutere, this time settling further up the valley. Over the next 20 years, joined by a number of their compatriots, they established settlements at Sarau (now called Upper Moutere), Rosental (Rosedale) and Neudorf.}}</ref> and formed the nucleus of the villages of Sarau (now known as Upper Moutere) and Neudorf. They were Lutheran Protestants with a small number of Bavarian Catholics.

The trip had lasted 176 days, during which time four young children had perished, seven couples had been joined in Holy Matrimony, one baby had been born and two passengers had jumped ship at a re-provisioning harbour. After a brief initial period of prosperity the inherent problems of lack of land and capital caught up with the Nelson settlements and they entered a prolonged period of relative depression. Organised immigration ceased until the 1850s and labourers had to accept a cut in their wages by one third. By the end of 1843 artisans and labourers began leaving Nelson and by 1846 a quarter of the immigrants had moved away.

[[Carl Friederich Christian Kelling|Charles Kelling]] was in charge of the second German immigration ship to the Nelson region, the ''[[Skjold (1839 ship)|Skjold]]'', which arrived in 1844. He moved to Sarau after first having established the village of [[Hope, New Zealand|Ranzau]] with his brother [[Fedor Kelling|Fedor]]. Charles Kelling became a community leader in Sarau.<ref name="DNZB Kelling">{{DNZB|title=Carl Friederich Christian Kelling|first= Max D.|last=Lash|id=1k6|accessdate=30 April 2012}}</ref> He represented the Moutere (1862–1869) and then the Waimea West (1869–1873) electorates on the [[Nelson Provincial Council]].<ref name="Scholefield 1950">{{cite book|last=Scholefield|first=Guy|title=New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949|author-link=Guy Scholefield|edition=3rd |orig-year=First ed. published 1913|year=1950|publisher= Govt. Printer|location=Wellington|page=213}}</ref>

Sarau was renamed Upper Moutere as a result of the anti-German feeling aroused by the [[World War I|First World War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.moutereinn.co.nz/documents/TheHistoryoftheMoutereInn0412.pdf|title=The History of the Moutere Inn|page=5|access-date=7 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150113091418/http://moutereinn.co.nz/documents/TheHistoryoftheMoutereInn0412.pdf|archive-date=13 January 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Demographics == Upper Moutere locality covers {{Convert|34.82|km2||abbr=on}}<ref name="Area">{{Cite web|title=Stats NZ Geographic Data Service|url=https://datafinder.stats.govt.nz/data/|at=Statistical Area 1 2023 (generalised)|access-date=10 April 2026}}</ref> It is part of the [[Tasman (settlement)#Moutere Hills statistical area|Moutere Hills statistical area]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://statsnz.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/sidebar/index.html?appid=3a406ce8fbb14367ab5caae21c07ab8b|title=Geographic Boundary Viewer|publisher=Stats NZ|at=Statistical Area 1 – 2023 and Statistical Area 2 – 2023}}</ref>

{{Historical populations|2006|372|2013|390|2018|408|2023|432|percentages=pagr|align=left|title=Historical population of Upper Moutere locality|source=<ref name="Census 2023"/><ref name="Census 2018">{{NZ census 2018|7022649, 7022650 and 7022651}}</ref>}} [[File:Lutheran Church of Upper Moutere, February 2007.jpg|thumb|right|St. Paul's [[Lutheran]] Church]] [[File:Moutere Inn, Upper Moutere (Sarau).jpg|thumb|Moutere Inn]] Upper Moutere had a population of 432 in the [[2023 New Zealand census]], an increase of 24 people (5.9%) since the [[2018 New Zealand census|2018 census]], and an increase of 42 people (10.8%) since the [[2013 New Zealand census|2013 census]]. There were 210 males, 222 females, and 3 people of [[non-binary gender|other genders]] in 153 dwellings.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://explore.data.stats.govt.nz/vis?fs[0]=2023%20Census%2C0%7CTotals%20by%20topic%23CAT_TOTALS_BY_TOPIC%23&pg=0&fc=Variable%20codes&bp=true&snb=9&df[ds]=ds-nsiws-disseminate&df[id]=CEN23_TBT_009&df[ag]=STATSNZ&df[vs]=1.0&dq=doTotal%2Bdo1.7022649%2B7022650%2B7022651.2023&ly[rw]=CEN23_TBT_DWD_003|publisher=Stats NZ – Tatauranga Aotearoa – Aotearoa Data Explorer|access-date=3 October 2024|title=Totals by topic for dwellings, (RC, TALB, UR, SA3, SA2, Ward, Health), 2013, 2018, and 2023 Censuses}}</ref> 3.5% of people identified as [[LGBTQ|LGBTIQ+]]. There were 72 people (16.7%) aged under 15 years, 48 (11.1%) aged 15 to 29, 213 (49.3%) aged 30 to 64, and 108 (25.0%) aged 65 or older.<ref name="Census 2023"/>

People could identify as more than one ethnicity. The results were 96.5% [[European New Zealanders|European]] ([[Pākehā]]); 6.9% [[Māori people|Māori]]; 0.7% [[Pasifika New Zealanders|Pasifika]]; 2.1% [[Asian New Zealanders|Asian]]; 1.4% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders (MELAA); and 4.2% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander". English was spoken by 97.2%, Māori by 2.1%, and other languages by 11.1%. No language could be spoken by 1.4% (e.g. too young to talk). The percentage of people born overseas was 30.6, compared with 28.8% nationally.<ref name="Census 2023"/>

Religious affiliations were 20.8% [[Christianity in New Zealand|Christian]], 0.7% [[Hinduism in New Zealand|Hindu]], 0.7% [[Islam in New Zealand|Islam]], 2.8% [[Buddhism in New Zealand|Buddhist]], 1.4% [[New Age]], and 0.7% other religions. People who answered that they had [[Irreligion in New Zealand|no religion]] were 65.3%, and 6.9% of people did not answer the census question.<ref name="Census 2023"/>

Of those at least 15 years old, 111 (30.8%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, 198 (55.0%) had a post-high school certificate or diploma, and 57 (15.8%) people exclusively held high school qualifications. 36 people (10.0%) earned over $100,000 compared to 12.1% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was 174 (48.3%) full-time, 66 (18.3%) part-time, and 9 (2.5%) unemployed.<ref name="Census 2023">{{Cite web|url=https://explore.data.stats.govt.nz/vis?fs[0]=2023%20Census%2C0%7CTotals%20by%20topic%23CAT_TOTALS_BY_TOPIC%23&pg=0&fc=Variable%20codes&bp=true&snb=9&df[ds]=ds-nsiws-disseminate&df[id]=CEN23_TBT_012&df[ag]=STATSNZ&df[vs]=1.0&dq=hq011%2Bhq010%2Bhq009%2Bhq008%2Bhq007%2Bhq006%2Bhq005%2Bhq004%2Bhq003%2Bhq002%2Bhq001%2Bhq000%2Bws1%2Bsp99%2Bra80%2Bra08%2Bra07%2Bra06%2Bra05%2Bra01%2Bra04%2Bra03%2Bra02%2Bra00%2Brb1%2Bls66%2Bls03%2Bls02%2Bls05%2Bls04%2Bls01%2Beg6%2Beg5%2Beg4%2Beg3%2Beg2%2Beg1%2BbiTotal%2Bbi0%2Bbi1%2BasTotalLG%2Bas4%2Bas3%2Bas2%2Bas1%2Bws4%2Bws3%2Bws2%2Bge3%2Bge2%2Bge1%2Brc%2BasMed%2BegTotal%2BlsTotal%2BgeTotal%2BrbTotal%2BraTotal%2BhqTotal%2BibTotal%2Bib7%2Bibmed%2BwsTotal.7022649%2B7022650%2B7022651.2013%2B2018%2B2023&to[TIME]=false&ly[rw]=CEN23_TBT_IND_003&ly[cl]=CEN23_YEAR_001|publisher=Stats NZ – Tatauranga Aotearoa – Aotearoa Data Explorer|access-date=3 October 2024|title=Totals by topic for individuals, (RC, TALB, UR, SA3, SA2, Ward, Health), 2013, 2018, and 2023 Censuses|at=7022649, 7022650 and 7022651}}</ref>

===Upper Moutere statistical area=== Upper Moutere statistical area, which includes [[Dovedale, New Zealand|Dovedale]], [[Ngātīmoti]] and [[Woodstock, Tasman|Woodstock]], is west of the locality, and does not include it. It covers {{Convert|445.94|km2||abbr=on}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=Stats NZ Geographic Data Service|url=https://datafinder.stats.govt.nz/data/|at=Statistical Area 2 2023 (generalised)|access-date=10 April 2026}}</ref> and had an estimated population of {{NZ population data 2023 SA2|Upper Moutere|y}} as of {{NZ population data 2023 SA2|||y|y||,}} with a population density of {{Decimals|{{formatnum:{{NZ population data 2023 SA2|Upper Moutere|y}}|R}}/445.94|1}} people per km<sup>2</sup>.

{{Historical populations|2006|1,677|2013|1,830|2018|1,962|2023|1,971|percentages=pagr|align=left|title=Historical population of Upper Moutere statistical area|source=<ref name="Census 2023 UM"/><ref name="Census 2018 UM">{{NZ census 2018|Upper Moutere (300900)|upper-moutere|Upper Moutere}}</ref>}} The statistical area had a population of 1,971 in the [[2023 New Zealand census]], an increase of 9 people (0.5%) since the [[2018 New Zealand census|2018 census]], and an increase of 141 people (7.7%) since the [[2013 New Zealand census|2013 census]]. There were 1,002 males, 966 females, and 6 people of [[non-binary gender|other genders]] in 753 dwellings.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://explore.data.stats.govt.nz/vis?fs[0]=2023%20Census%2C0%7CTotals%20by%20topic%23CAT_TOTALS_BY_TOPIC%23&pg=0&fc=Variable%20codes&bp=true&snb=9&df[ds]=ds-nsiws-disseminate&df[id]=CEN23_TBT_005&df[ag]=STATSNZ&df[vs]=1.0&dq=doTotal%2Bdo1.300900.2023&ly[rw]=CEN23_TBT_DWD_003|publisher=Stats NZ – Tatauranga Aotearoa – Aotearoa Data Explorer|access-date=3 October 2024|title=Totals by topic for dwellings, (RC, TALB, UR, SA3, SA2, Ward, Health), 2013, 2018, and 2023 Censuses}}</ref> 1.8% of people identified as [[LGBTQ|LGBTIQ+]]. The median age was 47.7 years (compared with 38.1 years nationally). There were 318 people (16.1%) aged under 15 years, 276 (14.0%) aged 15 to 29, 978 (49.6%) aged 30 to 64, and 396 (20.1%) aged 65 or older.<ref name="Census 2023 UM"/>

People could identify as more than one ethnicity. The results were 94.1% [[European New Zealanders|European]] ([[Pākehā]]); 8.2% [[Māori people|Māori]]; 2.1% [[Pasifika New Zealanders|Pasifika]]; 1.5% [[Asian New Zealanders|Asian]]; 0.8% Middle Eastern, Latin American and African New Zealanders (MELAA); and 4.3% other, which includes people giving their ethnicity as "New Zealander". English was spoken by 98.5%, Māori by 1.8%, Samoan by 0.2%, and other languages by 10.0%. No language could be spoken by 1.2% (e.g. too young to talk). [[New Zealand Sign Language]] was known by 0.5%. The percentage of people born overseas was 24.0, compared with 28.8% nationally.<ref name="Census 2023 UM"/>

Religious affiliations were 19.9% [[Christianity in New Zealand|Christian]], 0.8% [[Hinduism in New Zealand|Hindu]], 0.2% [[Islam in New Zealand|Islam]], 0.6% [[Buddhism in New Zealand|Buddhist]], 0.9% [[New Age]], 0.2% [[Judaism in New Zealand|Jewish]], and 0.9% other religions. People who answered that they had [[Irreligion in New Zealand|no religion]] were 66.5%, and 10.2% of people did not answer the census question.<ref name="Census 2023 UM"/>

Of those at least 15 years old, 381 (23.0%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, 903 (54.6%) had a post-high school certificate or diploma, and 372 (22.5%) people exclusively held high school qualifications. The median income was $31,300, compared with $41,500 nationally. 129 people (7.8%) earned over $100,000 compared to 12.1% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was 768 (46.5%) full-time, 312 (18.9%) part-time, and 24 (1.5%) unemployed.<ref name="Census 2023 UM">{{Cite web|url=https://explore.data.stats.govt.nz/vis?fs[0]=2023%20Census%2C0%7CTotals%20by%20topic%23CAT_TOTALS_BY_TOPIC%23&pg=0&fc=Variable%20codes&bp=true&snb=9&df[ds]=ds-nsiws-disseminate&df[id]=CEN23_TBT_008&df[ag]=STATSNZ&df[vs]=1.0&dq=hq011%2Bhq010%2Bhq009%2Bhq008%2Bhq007%2Bhq006%2Bhq005%2Bhq004%2Bhq003%2Bhq002%2Bhq001%2Bhq000%2Bws1%2Bsp99%2Bra80%2Bra08%2Bra07%2Bra06%2Bra05%2Bra01%2Bra04%2Bra03%2Bra02%2Bra00%2Brb1%2Bls66%2Bls03%2Bls02%2Bls05%2Bls04%2Bls01%2Beg6%2Beg5%2Beg4%2Beg3%2Beg2%2Beg1%2BbiTotal%2Bbi0%2Bbi1%2BasTotalLG%2Bas4%2Bas3%2Bas2%2Bas1%2Bws4%2Bws3%2Bws2%2Bge3%2Bge2%2Bge1%2Brc%2BasMed%2BegTotal%2BlsTotal%2BgeTotal%2BrbTotal%2BraTotal%2BhqTotal%2BibTotal%2Bib7%2Bibmed%2BwsTotal.300900.2013%2B2018%2B2023&to[TIME]=false&ly[rw]=CEN23_TBT_IND_003&ly[cl]=CEN23_YEAR_001|publisher=Stats NZ – Tatauranga Aotearoa – Aotearoa Data Explorer|access-date=3 October 2024|title=Totals by topic for individuals, (RC, TALB, UR, SA3, SA2, Ward, Health), 2013, 2018, and 2023 Censuses|at=Upper Moutere (300900)}}</ref>

==Education==

Upper Moutere School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 8 students,<ref name="official3229">{{cite web |title=Upper Moutere School Official School Website |url=http://www.uppermoutere.school.nz |website=uppermoutere.school.nz}}</ref><ref name="moe3229">{{cite web |title=Upper Moutere School Ministry of Education School Profile |url=https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/find-school/school/profile?school=3229 |website=educationcounts.govt.nz |publisher=[[Ministry of Education (New Zealand)|Ministry of Education]]}}</ref> with a roll of {{NZ school roll data|3229|y}} as of {{NZ school roll data|||y|}}.<ref name="ero3229">{{cite web |title=Upper Moutere School Education Review Office Report |url=https://www.ero.govt.nz/institution/3229/upper-moutere-school |website=ero.govt.nz |publisher=[[Education Review Office]]}}</ref> The first school in Upper Moutere opened in 1857. The current school opened in 1929, with the classroom from the first school moved to the current grounds in the 1940s. This classroom may be the oldest still in use in New Zealand.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uppermoutere.school.nz/about-us/our-history/|title=Our History|publisher=Upper Moutere School|accessdate=25 July 2021}}</ref>

== References == {{reflist}} {{Tasman District}}

[[Category:Populated places in the Tasman District]] [[Category:Populated places around Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere]]