 The combined population of Opononi and Omapere was about 525 in the 2018 Census.The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives translations of "place of [a] crooked fishing post" for "Ōpononi" and "place of cutty grass" for "Ōmāpere".The statistical area of Waipoua Forest, which is much larger than the Opononi-Omapere settlement area at 278 square kilometres, stretches from the Hokianga south coast to the boundary with Kaipara District.