Browns Bay, New Zealand

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Suburb:	Browns Bay
City:	North Shore
Island:	North Island
Surrounded by - to the north - to the east - to the south - to the south-west - to the north-west	Torbay Hauraki Gulf Rothesay Bay Pinehill Northcross

Browns Bay is an Auckland suburb. It is one of the East Coast Bays suburbs, and is well known for its shops and beaches.

Browns Bay is under the local governance of the North Shore City Council.

2006 census figures show the population as about 4,000, but surrounding areas such as Northcross and Oaktree are technically part of the area so the resident population is closer to 16,000.

Browns Bay is well known for its sizeable British and South African communities. There is an annual African festival held there every March as well as Afrikaans churches and community centres, plus South African shops such as Janssen's deli that sell a wide range of products such as boerwors, bitlong etc. For the Brits, there is Speaker's Corner, one of Auckland's iconic English pubs, as well as Brampton's - a grocery store selling only British imported wares.

It is also the home to the New Zealand offices of Netconcepts, Browns Bay was chosen for the very close beach, and isn't gridlocked.^[1]