Living in Burswood: schools, census and property titles
The 728 live property titles in Burswood, Auckland are almost all freehold (80%), as recorded by LINZ on 30 September 2026. Cross-lease titles number 38 (5.2%), well below the national share of 8.7%.
- Cross-lease titles
- 38
- Share of live titles
- 5.2%
- Live titles in total
- 728
- Auckland share
- 14.4%
- New Zealand share
- 8.7%
- Rank by share in Auckland
- joint 136 of 160
- Rank by share in New Zealand
- joint 487 of 644
Burswood at a glance
Where Burswood differs most from suburbs across New Zealand: typical distance to the coast (lower than 98% of NZ suburbs).
Higher or lower is not better or worse. Sources and limits
Start here
What the data tells you
Recorded facts
- Burswood is listed under Auckland.
- 728 live titles are recorded here, including 38 cross-lease titles (5.2%).
- The page includes 2023 Census context for the statistical area that represents this suburb.
Contextual observations
- Cross-lease titles make up 5.2% of the recorded title mix. That describes the suburb, not any particular home.
- Unit titles account for 13.0% of recorded titles, so title structure can vary within the suburb.
- Public-transport figures describe how recorded titles sit near mapped stops. They do not describe a service from a particular property.
- Coast distance is a suburb-level map measure, not a flood or hazard assessment.
Questions worth investigating
- For any cross-lease property you consider, do the current title, flats plan and lease match what is built today?
- What do the LIM, council property file and a suitable inspection add for the specific address?
No data held for this suburb
- A usable MBIE new-tenancy rent figure is not available for this suburb.
Title mix in Burswood
| Title type | Live titles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 580 | 79.7% |
| Cross lease | 38 | 5.2% |
| Unit title | 95 | 13.0% |
| Leasehold | 1 | 0.1% |
| Other record types | 14 | 1.9% |
| Total | 728 | 100% |
Counts are titles, not homes; the register can lag conversions, so check the certificate of title. Sources and limits
How Burswood compares
Nationally, 8.7% of live titles are cross-lease; Burswood is well below the national share (8.7%).
Across Auckland as a whole, the share is 14.4%; Burswood is well below the overall Auckland share (14.4%).
Its cross-lease share is in the lowest quarter of 160 in Auckland (among suburbs with an indexed page on this site).
How cross-leases in Burswood are set up
More schemes refer to more than one flats plan (84%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.
More leases include a garage (37% of schemes, against 28% nationally).
Two-flat schemes are more common here (100% of schemes, against 76% nationally).
| Scheme structure | Burswood | Auckland | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-lease schemes (shared sections) | 19 | 39,589 | 87,651 |
| Two-flat schemes | 100.0% | 73.7% | 76.2% |
| Three-flat schemes | 0.0% | 14.0% | 12.2% |
| Four or more flats | 0.0% | 12.0% | 11.4% |
| Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey) | 906 m² | 961 m² | 908 m² |
| Typical land per flat | 453 m² | 418 m² | 408 m² |
| Schemes with a garage written into a lease | 36.8% | 23.0% | 28.4% |
| Schemes with a carport in a lease | 15.8% | 19.2% | 13.3% |
| Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area | 0.0% | 5.5% | 4.5% |
| Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem) | 84.2% | 42.1% | 35.6% |
| Median year of earliest current title | 1993 | 1989 | 1988 |
| Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more | 19 | 26,275 | 54,978 |
Unit titles and leasehold in Burswood
Unit titles are 13% of Burswood's titles, slightly below Auckland (15%) and well above New Zealand (8%). They belong to 14 developments, each run by a body corporate; half have 5 units or fewer.
New titles in Burswood since 2020
34 of Burswood's current titles (5%) were first issued since 2020, well below Auckland's suburbs with new-title figures taken together (16%) and well below New Zealand (12%).
That rate is in the lowest quarter of 157 in Auckland.
Most came recently: 25 since 2023.
| Title type | Since 2020 | Since 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 34 | 25 |
| Unit title | 0 | 0 |
| Cross-lease | 0 | 0 |
| Leasehold | 0 | 0 |
| Other | 0 | 0 |
New titles include cross-leases converted to freehold and titles re-issued; they are not a count of new homes. Sources and limits
The lie of the land in Burswood
The typical building in Burswood stands on ground sloping 1.0° (read on an 8 m grid, so short steep banks may be understated), in the flattest quarter of 160 in Auckland.
Nearly all of its 856 measured buildings (97%) stand on ground under 5°.
Much of the land is low-lying: the median elevation is 8 m, and parts are below sea level.
Slope is not a measure of ground stability. Sources and limits
Distance to the coast from Burswood
79% of Burswood's titles are within 200 m of the sea or harbour edge, 100% within 500 m and 100% within 1 km. The typical title is 110 m away.
Measured in a straight line from the centre of each title's land to the coastline on LINZ's 1:50k topographic map, which follows harbours and estuaries as well as the open coast; lakes and rivers are not included. Distance says nothing about beach access, views or exposure to coastal hazards; council hazard maps and the LIM describe those.
Who lives around Burswood: 2023 Census
About 81% of Burswood's titles are in the census area Burswood (a Stats NZ statistical area), so these figures describe that area, not Burswood exactly.
Fewer households have no car in Burswood than across Auckland: 1.8% against 6.8%.
Fewer people live alone in Burswood than across Auckland: 10.3% against 18.5%.
Fewer workers commute by bus, train or ferry in Burswood than across Auckland: 5.6% against 7.8%.
| Measure | Burswood | East Tamaki | Auckland whole council |
|---|---|---|---|
| Usual residents | 1,596 | 270 | 1,656,486 |
| Change since 2018 | −5.8% | −12.6% | +5.4% |
| Change since 2013 | −1.7% | +26.8% | +17.0% |
| Median age | 39.9 | 36.9 | 35.9 |
| Households | 546 | 99 | 539,490 |
| Own or part-own their home (including family trusts) | 61.5% | 27.3% | 59.5% |
| Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting) | 37.9% | 72.7% | 40.5% |
| Median household income | $120,300 | $102,400 | $116,800 |
| Median weekly rent, renting households | $630 | $550 | $540 |
| Dwellings unoccupied on census night | 4.2% | 15.0% | 8.8% |
| Ages | |||
| Under 15 | 16.0% | 14.4% | 19.2% |
| 15 to 29 | 15.8% | 20.0% | 20.9% |
| 30 to 64 | 53.6% | 57.8% | 46.5% |
| 65 and over | 14.5% | 7.8% | 13.3% |
| Where people came from | |||
| Born overseas | 56.8% | 45.6% | 42.9% |
| Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years | 12.8% | 27.5% | 19.6% |
| Lived elsewhere in New Zealand 5 years ago (of all residents, including children born since) | 38.8% | 67.8% | 45.0% |
| Lived overseas 5 years ago (of all residents) | 5.9% | 8.0% | 5.6% |
| Moved here in the last year (of all residents) | 17.2% | 27.8% | 21.1% |
| Work and study (people 15 and over) | |||
| Bachelor degree or higher | 33.3% | 27.4% | 32.9% |
| Employed full-time | 57.6% | 69.2% | 53.2% |
| Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate) | 2.5% | 5.1% | 3.3% |
| Managers and professionals (of those employed) | 44.1% | 45.9% | 47.5% |
| Median personal income | $47,200 | $51,200 | $44,700 |
| Getting to work (of those employed) | |||
| Work from home | 16.8% | 14.8% | 18.2% |
| Car, truck or van | 74.3% | 73.8% | 68.6% |
| Bus, train or ferry | 5.6% | 4.9% | 7.8% |
| Walk or cycle | 2.3% | 6.6% | 4.2% |
| Households and families | |||
| One-person households | 10.3% | 29.0% | 18.5% |
| Average people per household | 2.9 | 2.5 | 3 |
| Households with no motor vehicle | 1.8% | 6.7% | 6.8% |
| Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms) | 6.3% | 12.9% | 8.8% |
| Couples with children (of families) | 45.5% | 31.8% | 47.2% |
| Couples without children | 38.5% | 50.0% | 35.5% |
| One-parent families | 16.0% | 18.2% | 17.3% |
| Homes | |||
| Separate (stand-alone) houses | 94.0% | 14.7% | 71.5% |
| Average bedrooms | 3.2 | 2.4 | 3.1 |
| Heated with a heat pump | 73.8% | 60.0% | 66.3% |
| Damp, always or sometimes | 14.1% | 17.2% | 20.1% |
| Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes | 14.5% | 14.3% | 17.4% |
Schools and hospitals near Burswood
No school site lies inside Burswood's boundary; the nearest is Riverhills School, 0.8 km away in a straight line.
- Nearest school: Riverhills School (0.8 km)
- Nearest secondary school: Elim Christian College (1.2 km)
- Nearest public general hospital: Middlemore Hospital (6.6 km)
School enrolment zones in Burswood: a guide
Two secondary schools have a home zone covering most of Burswood's titles: Sancta Maria College and Edgewater College.
- Riverhills School (primary, Years 1–6): all or nearly all titles
- Pakuranga Intermediate (intermediate, Years 7–8): all or nearly all titles
- Howick Intermediate (intermediate, Years 7–8): all or nearly all titles
- Sancta Maria College (secondary): all or nearly all titles
- Edgewater College (secondary): all or nearly all titles
A guide only: check the school's own zone map for any address. Zones as at 14 July 2026. Sources and limits
Public transport in Burswood
52% of Burswood's titles are within 400 m of a stop with a scheduled weekday service, well below Auckland as a whole (82%).
52% are that close to a frequent stop (60 or more departures that day), close to the council (54%).
The typical title is 391 m in a straight line from its nearest stop.
Timetable of Wednesday 30 September 2026, Auckland Transport. Sources and limits
Places of worship near Burswood
OpenStreetMap maps 1 place of worship inside Burswood (1 Christian).
Nearest mapped place of each tradition within 10 km:
- Christian: East City Wesleyan Church, under 1 km away
- Hindu: Shree Swaminarayan Temple, 6.9 km away
- Buddhist: Oneness Buddhist Temple, 1.0 km away
- Muslim: Islamic Ahlulbayt Foundation of New Zealand, 1.0 km away
- Sikh: Gurdwara Sahib, 4.4 km away
Listed as facilities for access; not an indicator of who lives here. Sources and limits
Other suburbs in Auckland with many cross-leases
- Papatoetoe: 3,998 cross-lease titles (25.8%)
- Remuera: 3,046 cross-lease titles (26.7%)
- Mount Roskill: 2,891 cross-lease titles (28.3%)
- Mount Wellington: 2,700 cross-lease titles (24.1%)
- Glenfield: 2,347 cross-lease titles (36.6%)
- Epsom: 2,335 cross-lease titles (29.8%)
- New Lynn: 2,016 cross-lease titles (24.4%)
- Mount Eden: 2,005 cross-lease titles (20.7%)
Suburbs like Burswood
The closest match on the measures on this site is Golflands in Auckland, nearest on commuting on foot or by bike, distance to the coast, land per flat. Closeness is arithmetic, not a rating. Sources and limits
| Suburb | Council | Cross-lease share of titles | Median weekly rent, new tenancies | Median age | Closest on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golflands | Auckland | 18.2% | $780 | 44 | commuting on foot or by bike, distance to the coast, land per flat |
| Goodwood Heights | Auckland | 10.7% | $785 | 36.7 | older residents, new titles, distance to a hospital |
| Totara Heights | Auckland | 9.8% | $720 | 34.9 | schools, distance to a hospital, near a stop |
| Sunnyhills | Auckland | 18.6% | $655 | 41.4 | distance to the coast, commuting on foot or by bike, degrees |
| Mellons Bay, Auckland | Auckland | 16.3% | $850 | 44.3 | new titles, distance to the coast, commuting by public transport |
Questions
What schools are in Burswood?
No school site lies inside Burswood's boundary. The nearest school is Riverhills School (0.8 km in a straight line). Secondary-school home zones covering most of its titles are Sancta Maria College and Edgewater College; check the school's own zone map for any address.