Grey District Council 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 council is at Greymouth, where 27% of the district's population live.
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The district has a population of 13,221 at the 2006 census, of whom 8% are Maori. Of the total population, 3600 live 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 homogenous ethnic composition. Forty per cent of the population had no educational qualifications in 2001, compared with around 27% in New Zealand as a whole.[1]
There are 619 km of road in the district, of which 358 km are sealed (2000s data).[1]
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 [2]
A county in the area was Grey County, New Zealand.
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