Glen Innes, New Zealand

Suburb in Auckland, New Zealand

Glen Innes
Suburb
Glen Innes, September 2018
Coordinates: 36°52′34″S 174°51′41″E / 36.8762°S 174.8615°E / -36.8762; 174.8615
Country	New Zealand
City	Auckland
Local authority	Auckland Council
Electoral ward	Maungakiekie-Tāmaki ward
Local board	Maungakiekie-Tāmaki Local Board
Board subdivision	Tāmaki
Area [1]
• Land	137 ha (339 acres)
Population  (June 2024)[2]
• Total	4,790
Train stations	Glen Innes Railway Station

Kohimarama	Saint Heliers	Glendowie
Saint Johns	Glen Innes	Wai o Taiki Bay
	Point England	Tamaki River

Glen Innes is a suburb in East Auckland, New Zealand, located nine kilometres to the east of the city centre, close to the waters of the Tamaki River estuary.

Glen Innes was named after a large farm owned by William Innes Taylor in the area. There were four Taylor brothers in Auckland, the sons of a British man who had had a military career in India. Three of the brothers had farms in this area and built houses; William Innes Taylor at Glen Innes, Richard James Taylor at Glendowie and Charles John Taylor at Glen Orchard (now Saint Heliers).^[3] Their brother Allan Kerr Taylor had a farm estate in Mount Albert, whose house was called Alberton.^[4]

The main streets in Glen Innes are Taniwha Street and Apirana Avenue, which meet in the shopping centre of the suburb. Glen Innes has a train station on the Eastern Line of the Auckland rail network, and is a hub for eastern Auckland isthmus buses (Metrolink).

Glen Innes is a low-income, working class area with around 1,500 state houses. In an effort to improve the quality of state housing in Glen Innes, the government introduced "Talbot Park", an area of higher density housing, consisting of mostly apartment-style housing. The Tāmaki Regeneration Programme will also target 2500 public homes that will transform into 10,500 new private market, affordable and public homes across the area creating new vibrant and mixed-tenure neighbourhoods.