Grey District

Grey District in the West Coast Region of New Zealand is a municipality that covers Greymouth, Runanga, Blackball, Cobden and settlements along the Grey River. It has a land area of 3,516.48 km² (1,357.72 sq mi). The seat of the Grey District Council, the local government authority that administers the district, is at Greymouth, where 27% of the district's population live.

Population
The district had a population of 13,221 at the 2006 census, of whom 8% were Maori. Of the total population, 3600 lived in Greymouth, 1221 in Runanga, 1707 in Cobden and 330 in Blackball. With around 95% of its inhabitants being of European descent (2001 Census), the Grey District has a very homogeneous ethnic composition. Forty per cent of the population had no educational qualifications in 2001, as against around 27% in New Zealand as a whole.

Infrastructure
There are 619 km of road in the district, of which 358 km are sealed (2000s data).

Destruction of historic site
Greymouth has an historic World War II gun emplacement at Cobden. The council destroyed part of this site, without consultation, in 2007 to make way for a sewer line

History
A county in the area was Grey County, New Zealand.