Living in Eden Terrace: rents, schools, census and property titles
The 2,441 live property titles in Eden Terrace, Auckland are mostly unit title (73%), as recorded by LINZ on 30 September 2026. Cross-lease titles number 31 (1.3%), well below the national share of 8.7%.
Eden Terrace cross-lease titles
- Cross-lease titles
- 31
- Share of live titles
- 1.3%
- Live titles in total
- 2,441
- Auckland share
- 14.4%
- New Zealand share
- 8.7%
- Rank by share in Auckland
- 156 of 160
- Rank by share in New Zealand
- 631 of 644
Eden Terrace at a glance
Where Eden Terrace differs most from suburbs across New Zealand: homes with a heat pump (lower than 99% of NZ suburbs); cross-lease share of titles (lower than 97% of NZ suburbs); median slope under buildings (higher than 93% of NZ suburbs).
Higher or lower is not better or worse. Sources and limits
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What the data tells you
Recorded facts
- Eden Terrace is listed under Auckland.
- 2,441 live titles are recorded here, including 31 cross-lease titles (1.3%).
- The page includes 2023 Census context for the statistical area that represents this suburb.
- The page includes MBIE new-tenancy rent figures for April–June 2026.
Contextual observations
- Cross-lease titles make up 1.3% of the recorded title mix. That describes the suburb, not any particular home.
- Unit titles account for 72.8% 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
- The core title, Census, rent, transport and coast measures used by this page are available.
Title mix in Eden Terrace
| Title type | Live titles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 507 | 20.8% |
| Cross lease | 31 | 1.3% |
| Unit title | 1,777 | 72.8% |
| Leasehold | 28 | 1.1% |
| Other record types | 98 | 4.0% |
| Total | 2,441 | 100% |
Counts are titles, not homes; the register can lag conversions, so check the certificate of title. Sources and limits
How Eden Terrace compares
Nationally, 8.7% of live titles are cross-lease; Eden Terrace is well below the national share (8.7%).
Across Auckland as a whole, the share is 14.4%; Eden Terrace 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 Eden Terrace are set up
Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (17%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.
Fewer leases include a garage (17% of schemes, against 28% nationally).
Carports appear in fewer leases (8% of schemes, against 13% nationally).
| Scheme structure | Eden Terrace | Auckland | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-lease schemes (shared sections) | 12 | 39,589 | 87,651 |
| Two-flat schemes | 75.0% | 73.7% | 76.2% |
| Three-flat schemes | 8.3% | 14.0% | 12.2% |
| Four or more flats | 16.7% | 12.0% | 11.4% |
| Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey) | 602 m² | 961 m² | 908 m² |
| Typical land per flat | 258 m² | 418 m² | 408 m² |
| Schemes with a garage written into a lease | 16.7% | 23.0% | 28.4% |
| Schemes with a carport in a lease | 8.3% | 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) | 16.7% | 42.1% | 35.6% |
| Median year of earliest current title | 1990 | 1989 | 1988 |
| Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more | 1 | 26,275 | 54,978 |
Unit titles and leasehold in Eden Terrace
Unit titles are 73% of Eden Terrace's titles, well above Auckland (15%) and well above New Zealand (8%). They belong to 68 developments, each run by a body corporate; 11 have 50 or more units.
The unit-title share is 3rd highest of 160 in Auckland.
28 titles (1.1%) are leasehold, 28 of them units in a unit-title development.
Stated lease terms, as at 30 September 2026:
| Stated lease term | Titles |
|---|---|
| Stated term has ended | 0 |
| Under 10 years left | 0 |
| 10 to 50 years left | 0 |
| More than 50 years left | 0 |
| Term mentions renewal (including perpetually renewable) | 0 |
| Term not stated or not readable | 28 |
New titles in Eden Terrace since 2020
259 of Eden Terrace's current titles (11%) were first issued since 2020, below Auckland's suburbs with new-title figures taken together (16%) and slightly below New Zealand (12%).
Most are unit titles: 197 in 9 developments (apartments, terraces or townhouses under a body corporate).
| Title type | Since 2020 | Since 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 32 | 14 |
| Unit title | 197 | 84 |
| Cross-lease | 0 | 0 |
| Leasehold | 5 | 3 |
| Other | 25 | 7 |
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 Eden Terrace
The typical building in Eden Terrace stands on ground sloping 8.3° (read on an 8 m grid, so short steep banks may be understated), in the steepest quarter of 160 in Auckland.
About 13% of its 507 measured buildings stand on ground of 15° or more.
Unusually much of the sloping land faces north: 36%, where about a quarter would if slopes faced every way equally.
Slope is not a measure of ground stability. Sources and limits
Distance to the coast from Eden Terrace
Eden Terrace is inland: the typical title is 2.1 km from the sea or harbour edge, and fewer than 1 in 2,000 titles are within 1 km of it.
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 Eden Terrace: 2023 Census
About 82% of Eden Terrace's titles are in the census area Eden Terrace (a Stats NZ statistical area), so these figures describe that area, not Eden Terrace exactly.
Fewer homes are stand-alone houses in Eden Terrace than across Auckland: 4.8% against 71.5%.
More workers walk or cycle to work in Eden Terrace than across Auckland: 21.3% against 4.2%.
Fewer residents are children under 15 in Eden Terrace than across Auckland: 5.4% against 19.2%.
| Measure | Eden Terrace | Grafton West | Auckland whole council |
|---|---|---|---|
| Usual residents | 3,186 | 1,332 | 1,656,486 |
| Change since 2018 | +4.9% | +49.0% | +5.4% |
| Change since 2013 | +13.8% | +43.2% | +17.0% |
| Median age | 33 | 32.4 | 35.9 |
| Households | 1,590 | 675 | 539,490 |
| Own or part-own their home (including family trusts) | 33.2% | 37.3% | 59.5% |
| Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting) | 67.0% | 62.7% | 40.5% |
| Median household income | $116,600 | $117,700 | $116,800 |
| Median weekly rent, renting households | $540 | $600 | $540 |
| Dwellings unoccupied on census night | 16.6% | 17.0% | 8.8% |
| Ages | |||
| Under 15 | 5.4% | 5.9% | 19.2% |
| 15 to 29 | 32.6% | 34.9% | 20.9% |
| 30 to 64 | 57.8% | 53.2% | 46.5% |
| 65 and over | 4.2% | 6.1% | 13.3% |
| Where people came from | |||
| Born overseas | 52.1% | 59.6% | 42.9% |
| Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years | 34.9% | 28.6% | 19.6% |
| Lived elsewhere in New Zealand 5 years ago (of all residents, including children born since) | 68.2% | 74.6% | 45.0% |
| Lived overseas 5 years ago (of all residents) | 9.9% | 10.3% | 5.6% |
| Moved here in the last year (of all residents) | 39.7% | 42.8% | 21.1% |
| Work and study (people 15 and over) | |||
| Bachelor degree or higher | 56.2% | 61.8% | 32.9% |
| Employed full-time | 70.4% | 68.6% | 53.2% |
| Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate) | 2.9% | 3.4% | 3.3% |
| Managers and professionals (of those employed) | 58.9% | 67.0% | 47.5% |
| Median personal income | $62,000 | $66,200 | $44,700 |
| Getting to work (of those employed) | |||
| Work from home | 19.3% | 17.0% | 18.2% |
| Car, truck or van | 41.5% | 37.0% | 68.6% |
| Bus, train or ferry | 14.6% | 15.2% | 7.8% |
| Walk or cycle | 21.3% | 28.8% | 4.2% |
| Households and families | |||
| One-person households | 39.4% | 33.3% | 18.5% |
| Average people per household | 1.9 | 1.9 | 3 |
| Households with no motor vehicle | 16.1% | 13.1% | 6.8% |
| Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms) | 5.1% | 7.9% | 8.8% |
| Couples with children (of families) | 20.0% | 18.2% | 47.2% |
| Couples without children | 73.6% | 71.1% | 35.5% |
| One-parent families | 6.8% | 10.7% | 17.3% |
| Homes | |||
| Separate (stand-alone) houses | 4.8% | 3.0% | 71.5% |
| Average bedrooms | 1.8 | 1.8 | 3.1 |
| Heated with a heat pump | 41.0% | 40.7% | 66.3% |
| Damp, always or sometimes | 13.2% | 7.7% | 20.1% |
| Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes | 9.1% | 3.8% | 17.4% |
Rents around Eden Terrace
New tenancies in Eden Terrace in the April–June 2026 quarter had a median rent of $600 a week (up 3.4% on a year earlier). That is slightly below the typical suburb in Auckland ($675), and close to the national median ($600); in the lowest quarter of 129 in Auckland.
| April–June 2026 | Eden Terrace | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|
| Median weekly rent, new tenancies | $600 | $600 |
| Middle half of rents | $460–$700 | $490–$700 |
| Change in median on a year earlier | +3.4% | +0.2% |
| Bonds lodged in the quarter | 126 | 40,827 |
Schools and hospitals near Eden Terrace
No school site lies inside Eden Terrace's boundary; the nearest is Newton Central School, 0.5 km away in a straight line.
- Nearest school: Newton Central School (0.5 km)
- Nearest secondary school: Auckland Girls' Grammar School (0.9 km)
- Nearest public general hospital: Auckland City Hospital (1.3 km)
School enrolment zones in Eden Terrace: a guide
Three secondary schools have a home zone covering most of Eden Terrace's titles: Auckland Girls' Grammar School, Mt Albert Grammar School and Western Springs College.
- Newton Central School (primary, Years 1–6): about 85% of titles
- Newmarket School (primary, Years 1–6): about 10% of titles
- Kowhai Intermediate School (intermediate, Years 7–8): all or nearly all titles
- Pasadena Intermediate (intermediate, Years 7–8): about 55% of titles
- Auckland Girls' Grammar School (secondary): all or nearly all titles
- Mt Albert Grammar School (secondary): all or nearly all titles
- Western Springs College (secondary): about 55% of titles
- Auckland Grammar (secondary): about 45% of 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 Eden Terrace
99% of Eden Terrace's titles are within 400 m of a stop with a scheduled weekday service, above Auckland as a whole (82%).
99% are that close to a frequent stop (60 or more departures that day), well above the council (54%); in the highest quarter of 160 in Auckland.
100% are within 800 m of a train station or ferry wharf.
The typical title is 150 m in a straight line from its nearest stop.
Timetable of Wednesday 30 September 2026, Auckland Transport. Sources and limits
Places of worship near Eden Terrace
OpenStreetMap maps 6 places of worship inside Eden Terrace (5 Christian, 1 Hindu).
Nearest mapped place of each tradition within 10 km:
- Christian: Christian Spiritualist Church of the Golden Light, under 1 km away
- Hindu: Sri Radha Krishna Mandir, under 1 km away
- Buddhist: New Zealand Tsi MIng Temple, 5.1 km away
- Muslim: AUT Masjid - Muslim Prayer Hall, 1.4 km away
- Sikh: Gurdwara Sahib North Shore, 9.2 km away
- Jewish: Auckland Hebrew Congregation, 1.0 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 Eden Terrace
The closest match on the measures on this site is Parnell in Auckland, nearest on land per flat, distance to a hospital, near a stop. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parnell | Auckland | 11.7% | $720 | 32.2 | land per flat, distance to a hospital, near a stop |
| Newmarket | Auckland | 5.0% | $640 | 34.1 | distance to a hospital, near a frequent stop, home ownership |
| Grey Lynn | Auckland | 6.7% | $650 | 32.8 | distance to the coast, median age, degrees |
| Grafton | Auckland | 0.9% | $472 | 22.7 | schools, distance to the coast, near a frequent stop |
| Freemans Bay, Auckland | Auckland | 6.8% | $783 | 41 | distance to the coast, distance to a hospital, near a stop |
Questions
What is the rent in Eden Terrace?
New tenancies in the Eden Terrace rent area had a median rent of $600 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter (MBIE bond data, all dwelling types). These are rents agreed for new tenancies, not asking rents. The middle half of those rents ran from $460 to $700.
What schools are in Eden Terrace?
No school site lies inside Eden Terrace's boundary. The nearest school is Newton Central School (0.5 km in a straight line). Secondary-school home zones covering most of its titles are Auckland Girls' Grammar School, Mt Albert Grammar School and Western Springs College; check the school's own zone map for any address.