Living in Manukau City Centre: rents, schools, census and property titles
The 1,996 live property titles in Manukau City Centre, Auckland are mostly unit title (51%), as recorded by LINZ on 30 September 2026. Cross-lease titles number 163 (8.2%), close to the national share of 8.7%.
Manukau City Centre cross-lease titles
- Cross-lease titles
- 163
- Share of live titles
- 8.2%
- Live titles in total
- 1,996
- Auckland share
- 14.4%
- New Zealand share
- 8.7%
- Rank by share in Auckland
- 121 of 160
- Rank by share in New Zealand
- joint 375 of 644
Manukau City Centre at a glance
Where Manukau City Centre differs most from suburbs across New Zealand: titles first issued since 2020 (higher than 96% of NZ suburbs); homes with a heat pump (lower than 93% of NZ suburbs); median weekly rent, new tenancies (lower than 90% 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
- Manukau City Centre is listed under Auckland.
- 1,996 live titles are recorded here, including 163 cross-lease titles (8.2%).
- 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 8.2% of the recorded title mix. That describes the suburb, not any particular home.
- Unit titles account for 50.6% 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 Manukau City Centre
| Title type | Live titles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 738 | 37.0% |
| Cross lease | 163 | 8.2% |
| Unit title | 1,009 | 50.6% |
| Leasehold | 14 | 0.7% |
| Other record types | 72 | 3.6% |
| Total | 1,996 | 100% |
Counts are titles, not homes; the register can lag conversions, so check the certificate of title. Sources and limits
How Manukau City Centre compares
Nationally, 8.7% of live titles are cross-lease; Manukau City Centre is close to the national share (8.7%).
Across Auckland as a whole, the share is 14.4%; Manukau City Centre 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 Manukau City Centre are set up
Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (13%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.
Carports appear in more leases (27% of schemes, against 13% nationally).
More schemes have four or more flats on one section (17%, against 11% nationally), up to 11.
| Scheme structure | Manukau City Centre | Auckland | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-lease schemes (shared sections) | 60 | 39,589 | 87,651 |
| Two-flat schemes | 66.7% | 73.7% | 76.2% |
| Three-flat schemes | 16.7% | 14.0% | 12.2% |
| Four or more flats | 16.7% | 12.0% | 11.4% |
| Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey) | 894 m² | 961 m² | 908 m² |
| Typical land per flat | 404 m² | 418 m² | 408 m² |
| Schemes with a garage written into a lease | 36.7% | 23.0% | 28.4% |
| Schemes with a carport in a lease | 26.7% | 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) | 13.3% | 42.1% | 35.6% |
| Median year of earliest current title | 1974 | 1989 | 1988 |
| Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more | 35 | 26,275 | 54,978 |
Unit titles and leasehold in Manukau City Centre
Unit titles are 51% of Manukau City Centre's titles, well above Auckland (15%) and well above New Zealand (8%). They belong to 60 developments, each run by a body corporate; 4 have 50 or more units.
The unit-title share is in the highest quarter of 160 in Auckland.
14 titles (0.7%) are leasehold, 1 of them units in a unit-title development.
2 of them have a stated term that has ended or has under 10 years to run, which is worth reading closely in the lease.
Stated lease terms, as at 30 September 2026:
| Stated lease term | Titles |
|---|---|
| Stated term has ended | 1 |
| Under 10 years left | 1 |
| 10 to 50 years left | 0 |
| More than 50 years left | 5 |
| Term mentions renewal (including perpetually renewable) | 6 |
| Term not stated or not readable | 1 |
New titles in Manukau City Centre since 2020
511 of Manukau City Centre's current titles (26%) were first issued since 2020, well above Auckland's suburbs with new-title figures taken together (16%) and well above New Zealand (12%).
That rate is in the highest quarter of 157 in Auckland.
40% are unit titles, in 8 developments; most of the rest are freehold.
| Title type | Since 2020 | Since 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 287 | 43 |
| Unit title | 206 | 25 |
| Cross-lease | 3 | 3 |
| Leasehold | 3 | 1 |
| Other | 12 | 4 |
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 Manukau City Centre
The typical building in Manukau City Centre stands on ground sloping 0.7° (read on an 8 m grid, so short steep banks may be understated), joint flattest of 160 in Auckland.
Nearly all of its 994 measured buildings (97%) stand on ground under 5°.
Slope is not a measure of ground stability. Sources and limits
Distance to the coast from Manukau City Centre
Manukau City Centre is inland: the typical title is 3.3 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 Manukau City Centre: 2023 Census
Manukau City Centre's titles fall in 4 census areas (Stats NZ statistical areas). The 3 shown below hold 99% of its titles; their figures are shown side by side and are not added together.
Fewer homes are stand-alone houses in Manukau Central than across Auckland: 12.0% against 71.5%.
More people live alone in Manukau Central than across Auckland: 54.0% against 18.5%.
More households have no car in Manukau Central than across Auckland: 16.1% against 6.8%.
| Measure | Manukau Central 58% of titles | Puhinui East 28% of titles | Wiri North 13% of titles | Auckland whole council |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Usual residents | 963 | 2,727 | 2,889 | 1,656,486 |
| Change since 2018 | +24.9% | +1.8% | +15.1% | +5.4% |
| Change since 2013 | +20.2% | +17.0% | +36.8% | +17.0% |
| Median age | 34.6 | 34.6 | 29.9 | 35.9 |
| Households | 468 | 756 | 768 | 539,490 |
| Own or part-own their home (including family trusts) | 26.3% | 45.6% | 37.5% | 59.5% |
| Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting) | 73.0% | 54.8% | 62.1% | 40.5% |
| Median household income | $69,100 | $107,800 | $81,700 | $116,800 |
| Median weekly rent, renting households | $450 | $516 | $186 | $540 |
| Dwellings unoccupied on census night | 26.6% | 4.8% | 6.1% | 8.8% |
| Ages | ||||
| Under 15 | 11.5% | 19.5% | 26.5% | 19.2% |
| 15 to 29 | 26.5% | 21.0% | 23.7% | 20.9% |
| 30 to 64 | 54.5% | 47.5% | 37.0% | 46.5% |
| 65 and over | 7.8% | 12.0% | 12.9% | 13.3% |
| Where people came from | ||||
| Born overseas | 44.9% | 58.4% | 34.8% | 42.9% |
| Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years | 27.3% | 17.8% | 14.2% | 19.6% |
| Lived elsewhere in New Zealand 5 years ago (of all residents, including children born since) | 64.8% | 49.6% | 48.9% | 45.0% |
| Lived overseas 5 years ago (of all residents) | 10.0% | 6.0% | 4.5% | 5.6% |
| Moved here in the last year (of all residents) | 40.8% | 21.8% | 20.0% | 21.1% |
| Work and study (people 15 and over) | ||||
| Bachelor degree or higher | 25.2% | 21.2% | 15.9% | 32.9% |
| Employed full-time | 57.0% | 52.9% | 45.3% | 53.2% |
| Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate) | 5.6% | 3.8% | 5.9% | 3.3% |
| Managers and professionals (of those employed) | 37.8% | 30.8% | 28.2% | 47.5% |
| Median personal income | $45,200 | $39,200 | $29,600 | $44,700 |
| Getting to work (of those employed) | ||||
| Work from home | 9.7% | 11.5% | 11.9% | 18.2% |
| Car, truck or van | 72.4% | 81.9% | 77.0% | 68.6% |
| Bus, train or ferry | 7.6% | 4.8% | 6.6% | 7.8% |
| Walk or cycle | 7.6% | 1.1% | 3.2% | 4.2% |
| Households and families | ||||
| One-person households | 54.0% | 13.0% | 16.7% | 18.5% |
| Average people per household | 1.8 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3 |
| Households with no motor vehicle | 16.1% | 7.1% | 13.1% | 6.8% |
| Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms) | 11.5% | 20.0% | 24.9% | 8.8% |
| Couples with children (of families) | 22.0% | 53.3% | 42.7% | 47.2% |
| Couples without children | 52.5% | 27.8% | 21.8% | 35.5% |
| One-parent families | 25.4% | 18.5% | 35.1% | 17.3% |
| Homes | ||||
| Separate (stand-alone) houses | 12.0% | 61.7% | 60.9% | 71.5% |
| Average bedrooms | 1.6 | 3 | 2.7 | 3.1 |
| Heated with a heat pump | 51.2% | 71.5% | 68.0% | 66.3% |
| Damp, always or sometimes | 12.0% | 24.5% | 28.1% | 20.1% |
| Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes | 9.8% | 24.0% | 26.4% | 17.4% |
Rents around Manukau City Centre
New tenancies in Manukau Central in the April–June 2026 quarter had a median rent of $490 a week (down 2.0% on a year earlier). That is below the typical suburb in Auckland ($675), and slightly below the national median ($600); 3rd lowest of 129 in Auckland.
| April–June 2026 | Manukau Central 58% of titles | Puhinui East 28% of titles | Wiri East 13% of titles | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median weekly rent, new tenancies | $490 | $595 | $600 | $600 |
| Middle half of rents | $420–$545 | $550–$703 | $465–$634 | $490–$700 |
| Change in median on a year earlier | −2.0% | −9.8% | +4.3% | +0.2% |
| Bonds lodged in the quarter | 39 | 30 | 36 | 40,827 |
Schools and hospitals near Manukau City Centre
One school site lies inside Manukau City Centre: South Auckland Seventh Day Adventist School (Full Primary).
- South Auckland Seventh Day Adventist School (Full Primary)
- Nearest school: South Auckland Seventh Day Adventist School (0.7 km)
- Nearest secondary school: Destiny School (1.3 km)
- Nearest public general hospital: Middlemore Hospital (4.4 km)
School enrolment zones in Manukau City Centre: a guide
One secondary school has a home zone covering most of Manukau City Centre's titles: Papatoetoe High School.
- Puhinui School (primary, Years 1–6): about 65% of titles
- Papatoetoe East School (primary, Years 1–6): about 5% of titles
- Wiri Central School (primary, Years 1–8): about 25% of titles
- Papatoetoe Intermediate (intermediate, Years 7–8): about 80% of titles
- Greenmeadows Intermediate (intermediate, Years 7–8): about 20% of titles
- Papatoetoe High School (secondary): about 80% of titles
- Manurewa High School (secondary): about 20% 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 Manukau City Centre
89% of Manukau City Centre's titles are within 400 m of a stop with a scheduled weekday service, slightly above Auckland as a whole (82%).
82% 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.
52% are within 800 m of a train station or ferry wharf.
The typical title is 170 m in a straight line from its nearest stop.
Timetable of Wednesday 30 September 2026, Auckland Transport. Sources and limits
Places of worship near Manukau City Centre
OpenStreetMap maps 11 places of worship inside Manukau City Centre (9 Christian, 2 other or not recorded).
Nearest mapped place of each tradition within 10 km:
- Christian: King of Kings Church, under 1 km away
- Hindu: Shree Swaminarayan Temple, 2.5 km away
- Buddhist: The Cambodian Association Auckland, 3.0 km away
- Muslim: Masjid At-Taqwa, 1.2 km away
- Sikh: Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha, 3.0 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 Manukau City Centre
The closest match on the measures on this site is Whitiora in Hamilton City, nearest on schools, older residents, unit-title share. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitiora | Hamilton City | 9.5% | $435 | 30.7 | schools, older residents, unit-title share |
| Frankton, Hamilton City | Hamilton City | 13.7% | $525 | 31.5 | older residents, slope, home ownership |
| Hamilton Central | Hamilton City | 5.1% | $495 | 39 | schools, unit-title share, rent |
| Wiri | Auckland | 5.2% | $500 | 34.2 | near a stop, population change, distance to the coast |
| Ōtāhuhu | Auckland | 16.1% | $400 | 37.3 | commuting on foot or by bike, heat pumps, household income |
Questions
What is the rent in Manukau City Centre?
New tenancies in Manukau Central (the rent area for part of Manukau City Centre) had a median rent of $490 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 $420 to $545.
What schools are in Manukau City Centre?
LINZ maps 1 school site inside Manukau City Centre: South Auckland Seventh Day Adventist School. The nearest secondary school to its centre is Destiny School (1.3 km in a straight line). The secondary-school home zone covering most of its titles is Papatoetoe High School; check the school's own zone map for any address.