Brown Owl, New Zealand

Brown Owl
Suburb
Akatarawa Road in Brown Owl
Coordinates: 41°06′18″S 175°05′54″E / 41.1049°S 175.0983°E / -41.1049; 175.0983
Country	New Zealand
Region	Wellington Region
Territorial authority	Upper Hutt
Electorates	Remutaka Ikaroa-Rāwhiti (Māori)
Government
• Territorial Authority	Upper Hutt City Council
• Regional council	Greater Wellington Regional Council
• Mayor of Upper Hutt	Wayne Guppy
• Remutaka MP	Chris Hipkins
• Ikaroa-Rāwhiti MP	Cushla Tangaere-Manuel
Area [1]
• Total	8.99 km2 (3.47 sq mi)
Population  (June 2024)[2]
• Total	3,770
• Density	420/km2 (1,100/sq mi)

Brown Owl is a suburb of Upper Hutt, located 3–4km from the city centre. It developed slowly from the 1960s.

The suburb is located on the eastern side of the Hutt River at the base of the Eastern Hutt Valley Hills and Emerald Hill, with SH2 running right through it. It is bordered by Timberlea to the east (at the intersection of SH2 and Norana Road in the northeast), Maoribank to the south of SH2 at Moeraki Road, and Birchville just past the northern side of Harcourt Park on Akatarawa Road. Tōtara Park can be accessed by foot by crossing the Harcourt Park Bridge at the end of Norbert Street.