name changed was that the name Waikumete had become closely associated with the cemetery. The new name referenced the central Auckland suburb of Mount Eden, as well as the many valleys (glens) in the suburb. After the area was formed into a town district, the area boomed as a working class neighbourhood. The Great Depression greatly affected Glen Eden, leaving many new houses vacant as potential occupants could not afford to buy or rent them. In 1935, the Glen Eden town hall burnt down, and was rebuilt within the next two years. The town hall remained a community social hub, holding events, movie showings and theatre productions. The building is currently known as the Glen Eden Playhouse Theatre. Between 1945 and 1954, the Waitemata Obstetric Hospital run by Vera Ellis-Crowther operated from her land on Glengarry Road. The area developed from a rural community in the 1940s into a satellite suburb of Auckland in the 1950s. In 1953 the population of the area had increased enough that the town district became the Glen Eden Borough. The borough status of Glen Eden brought prosperity, and allowed the local council to borrow funds to develop the area. Between 1951 and 1961, the population of Glen Eden tripled. In 1970, Glenmall, a local shopping precinct was opened to the south of the train station. The population grew to over 10,000 residents in the mid-1980s. Many street names in Glen Eden are named after early residents, and after Antarctic explorers from the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913). Most housing is wooden, with a few old farmhouses, some 1930s art deco houses, and post-war bungalows and weatherboard houses. There is also more recent terrace housing. Demographics Glen Eden covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Glen Eden had a population of 17,562 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 1,122 people (6.8%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 2,166 people (14.1%) since the 2006 census. There were 5,670 households, comprising 8,670 males and 8,889 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.98 males per female, with 4,014 people (22.9%) aged under 15 years, 3,861 (22.0%) aged 15 to 29, 8,055 (45.9%) aged 30 to 64, and 1,635 (9.3%) aged 65 or older. Ethnicities were 57.3% European/Pākehā, 15.1% Māori, 20.8% Pacific peoples, 21.8% Asian, and 3.3% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than