Normandale is a semi-rural suburb of Lower Hutt City, New Zealand, on the western hills of the Hutt Valley. It consists of two main roads – Normandale Road and Miromiro Road – and the hills between, and is a five minute drive from the Lower Hutt city centre.^[2]

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Normandale
Suburb
View toward Wellington from the top of Normandale Road
Coordinates: 41°12′09″S 174°53′32″E
Country	New Zealand
Region	Wellington Region
City	Lower Hutt City
Local authority	Hutt City Council
Electoral ward	Western
Established	1901
Area
• Land	145 ha (358 acres)
Population  (June 2023)[1]
• Total	2,160

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	Belmont Regional Park	Tirohanga
Maungaraki	Normandale	Harbour View
	Alicetown	Melling

Normandale contains historic woodland reserve Jubilee Park and part of Belmont Regional Park, Wellington's largest Regional Park. It also has many other smaller sections of native bush reserve, so native birds are very common; since 2019 Kiwibank has funded the suburb to suppress bird-killing predators as part of New Zealand's Predator Free project.^[3] Normandale is home to a primary school,^[4] a Playcentre,^[5] a church,^[6] a cattery,^[7] and a dog boarding kennel,^[8] and is otherwise entirely residential. As an older suburb made up entirely of narrow and steep hills, it is dominated by trees.^[9]

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Normandale is defined by the area bordered by its two main roads: Normandale Road, starting with the bridge from Alicetown over State Highway 2 / Western Hutt Road and the Melling railway line; and Miromiro Road, which branches off after the bridge. Normandale Road is almost 4.5 kilometres long, whose top few kilometres, at around 200m altitude, serves small farms and lifestyle blocks. It connects north to Sweetacres Drive, Belmont. From the top of Miromiro Road, Dowse Drive connects upward to Normandale's pair suburb Maungaraki, with Poto Road connecting back down to Normandale Road in the opposite direction. The other connecting roads meet Normandale Road: Pokohiwi Road to Pekanga Road in the middle, and Cottle Park Drive and Stratton Street at the upper end bordering Belmont Regional Park.

Jubilee Park opened in 1940 to commemorate Wellington's centenary (and the 50th anniversary of Lower Hutt a year later). Mostly consisting of native bush (and the birds who live there), it also includes sites of houses built in the 1890s, a replica pioneer hut with the original chimney, heritage plantings, picnic areas, bush walks, three lawns, and a roadside calisthenics station.^[2]

Jubilee Park contains Hutt Minoh Friendship House, a Heritage New Zealand category 1 building. Originally named Norbury, it was built in 1904 by Lower Hutt's first mayor William Fitzherbert, to house his daughter Alice and her husband George William von Zedlitz, Victoria University's first professor of modern languages.^[10] It was acquired by the City Council in 1945 to house the park caretaker. Today it is used to promote Japanese culture and Lower Hutt's link with its sister city Minoh, Osaka, whose mayor funded its restoration.^[2] It includes New Zealand's first kyūdō dojo.^[11]

Normandale statistical area covers 1.45 km² (0.56 sq mi).^[15] It had an estimated population of 2,160 as of June 2023,^[1] with a population density of 1,490 people per km².

Normandale had a population of 2,010 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 72 people (3.7%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 69 people (3.6%) since the 2006 census. There were 723 households, comprising 1,002 males and 1,011 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.99 males per female. The median age was 38.7 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 417 people (20.7%) aged under 15 years, 315 (15.7%) aged 15 to 29, 1,065 (53.0%) aged 30 to 64, and 213 (10.6%) aged 65 or older.

Ethnicities were 87.2% European/Pākehā, 7.2% Māori, 3.1% Pasifika, 11.0% Asian, and 2.2% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.

The percentage of people born overseas was 24.9, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 56.7% had no religion, 33.1% were Christian, 0.1% had Māori religious beliefs, 0.9% were Hindu, 0.1% were Muslim, 0.6% were Buddhist and 2.4% had other religions.

Of those at least 15 years old, 609 (38.2%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 129 (8.1%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $51,000, compared with $31,800 nationally. 543 people (34.1%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 993 (62.3%) people were employed full-time, 231 (14.5%) were part-time, and 54 (3.4%) were unemployed.^[16]

Normandale School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 6 students,^[17][18] with a roll of 148 as of February 2024.^[19]