Living in Penrose: schools, census and property titles
The 1,291 live property titles in Penrose, Auckland are mostly freehold (61%), as recorded by LINZ on 30 September 2026. Cross-lease titles number 100 (7.7%), slightly below the national share of 8.7%.
- Cross-lease titles
- 100
- Share of live titles
- 7.7%
- Live titles in total
- 1,291
- Auckland share
- 14.4%
- New Zealand share
- 8.7%
- Rank by share in Auckland
- 123 of 160
- Rank by share in New Zealand
- joint 392 of 644
Penrose at a glance
Where Penrose differs most from suburbs across New Zealand: median age (higher 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
- Penrose is listed under Auckland.
- 1,291 live titles are recorded here, including 100 cross-lease titles (7.7%).
- The page includes 2023 Census context for the statistical area that represents this suburb.
Contextual observations
- Cross-lease titles make up 7.7% of the recorded title mix. That describes the suburb, not any particular home.
- Unit titles account for 23.7% 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 Penrose
| Title type | Live titles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 784 | 60.7% |
| Cross lease | 100 | 7.7% |
| Unit title | 306 | 23.7% |
| Leasehold | 46 | 3.6% |
| Other record types | 55 | 4.3% |
| Total | 1,291 | 100% |
Counts are titles, not homes; the register can lag conversions, so check the certificate of title. Sources and limits
How Penrose compares
Nationally, 8.7% of live titles are cross-lease; Penrose is slightly lower than the national share (8.7%).
Across Auckland as a whole, the share is 14.4%; Penrose 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 Penrose are set up
Fewer leases include a garage (10% of schemes, against 28% nationally).
More schemes have four or more flats on one section (19%, against 11% nationally), up to 20.
Three-flat schemes are less common here (7%, against 12% nationally).
| Scheme structure | Penrose | Auckland | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-lease schemes (shared sections) | 31 | 39,589 | 87,651 |
| Two-flat schemes | 74.2% | 73.7% | 76.2% |
| Three-flat schemes | 6.5% | 14.0% | 12.2% |
| Four or more flats | 19.4% | 12.0% | 11.4% |
| Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey) | 819 m² | 961 m² | 908 m² |
| Typical land per flat | 404 m² | 418 m² | 408 m² |
| Schemes with a garage written into a lease | 9.7% | 23.0% | 28.4% |
| Schemes with a carport in a lease | 16.1% | 19.2% | 13.3% |
| Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area | 3.2% | 5.5% | 4.5% |
| Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem) | 38.7% | 42.1% | 35.6% |
| Median year of earliest current title | 1991 | 1989 | 1988 |
| Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more | 22 | 26,275 | 54,978 |
Unit titles and leasehold in Penrose
Unit titles are 24% of Penrose's titles, well above Auckland (15%) and well above New Zealand (8%). They belong to 53 developments, each run by a body corporate; half have 4 units or fewer.
The unit-title share is in the highest quarter of 160 in Auckland.
46 titles (3.6%) are leasehold, well above the national share (1.2%).
1 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 | 0 |
| 10 to 50 years left | 3 |
| More than 50 years left | 0 |
| Term mentions renewal (including perpetually renewable) | 41 |
| Term not stated or not readable | 1 |
New titles in Penrose since 2020
165 of Penrose's current titles (13%) were first issued since 2020, slightly below Auckland's suburbs with new-title figures taken together (16%) and slightly above New Zealand (12%).
43% are unit titles, in 6 developments; most of the rest are freehold.
| Title type | Since 2020 | Since 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 68 | 33 |
| Unit title | 71 | 69 |
| Cross-lease | 2 | 0 |
| Leasehold | 19 | 6 |
| Other | 5 | 5 |
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 Penrose
The typical building in Penrose stands on ground sloping 1.6° (read on an 8 m grid, so short steep banks may be understated), in the flattest quarter of 160 in Auckland.
Slope is not a measure of ground stability. Sources and limits
Distance to the coast from Penrose
0% of Penrose's titles are within 200 m of the sea or harbour edge, 3% within 500 m and 18% within 1 km. The typical title is 2.0 km 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 Penrose: 2023 Census
About 86% of Penrose's titles are in the census area Penrose (a Stats NZ statistical area), so these figures describe that area, not Penrose exactly.
More residents are 65 or over in Penrose than across Auckland: 44.9% against 13.3%.
Fewer homes are stand-alone houses in Penrose than across Auckland: 29.9% against 71.5%.
More people live alone in Penrose than across Auckland: 41.5% against 18.5%.
| Measure | Penrose | Oranga | Auckland whole council |
|---|---|---|---|
| Usual residents | 1,029 | 2,772 | 1,656,486 |
| Change since 2018 | +22.1% | −13.3% | +5.4% |
| Change since 2013 | +59.5% | −6.1% | +17.0% |
| Median age | 55.9 | 31.6 | 35.9 |
| Households | 453 | 783 | 539,490 |
| Own or part-own their home (including family trusts) | 72.8% | 34.5% | 59.5% |
| Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting) | 27.8% | 65.9% | 40.5% |
| Median household income | $63,800 | $106,500 | $116,800 |
| Median weekly rent, renting households | $520 | $204 | $540 |
| Dwellings unoccupied on census night | 9.8% | 6.7% | 8.8% |
| Ages | |||
| Under 15 | 10.8% | 23.4% | 19.2% |
| 15 to 29 | 13.4% | 24.2% | 20.9% |
| 30 to 64 | 30.9% | 43.3% | 46.5% |
| 65 and over | 44.9% | 9.3% | 13.3% |
| Where people came from | |||
| Born overseas | 42.8% | 35.3% | 42.9% |
| Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years | 17.0% | 14.2% | 19.6% |
| Lived elsewhere in New Zealand 5 years ago (of all residents, including children born since) | 67.0% | 40.7% | 45.0% |
| Lived overseas 5 years ago (of all residents) | 4.7% | 3.8% | 5.6% |
| Moved here in the last year (of all residents) | 23.7% | 19.4% | 21.1% |
| Work and study (people 15 and over) | |||
| Bachelor degree or higher | 29.8% | 26.2% | 32.9% |
| Employed full-time | 34.8% | 50.7% | 53.2% |
| Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate) | 1.6% | 5.1% | 3.3% |
| Managers and professionals (of those employed) | 46.6% | 43.3% | 47.5% |
| Median personal income | $35,000 | $36,600 | $44,700 |
| Getting to work (of those employed) | |||
| Work from home | 21.4% | 14.8% | 18.2% |
| Car, truck or van | 66.4% | 72.8% | 68.6% |
| Bus, train or ferry | 7.6% | 7.7% | 7.8% |
| Walk or cycle | 2.3% | 2.6% | 4.2% |
| Households and families | |||
| One-person households | 41.5% | 16.0% | 18.5% |
| Average people per household | 2.1 | 3.5 | 3 |
| Households with no motor vehicle | 12.8% | 9.9% | 6.8% |
| Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms) | 5.7% | 21.9% | 8.8% |
| Couples with children (of families) | 28.9% | 45.3% | 47.2% |
| Couples without children | 60.5% | 22.9% | 35.5% |
| One-parent families | 13.2% | 31.3% | 17.3% |
| Homes | |||
| Separate (stand-alone) houses | 29.9% | 81.3% | 71.5% |
| Average bedrooms | 2.3 | 2.9 | 3.1 |
| Heated with a heat pump | 81.9% | 68.0% | 66.3% |
| Damp, always or sometimes | 12.2% | 34.3% | 20.1% |
| Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes | 8.3% | 32.1% | 17.4% |
Schools and hospitals near Penrose
No school site lies inside Penrose's boundary; the nearest is Bailey Road School, 1.0 km away in a straight line.
- Nearest school: Bailey Road School (1.0 km)
- Nearest secondary school: One Tree Hill College (1.9 km)
- Nearest public general hospital: Middlemore Hospital (5.6 km)
School enrolment zones in Penrose: a guide
Two secondary schools have a home zone covering most of Penrose's titles: Baradene College and One Tree Hill College.
- Te Papapa School (primary, Years 1–6): about 70% of titles
- Oranga School (primary, Years 1–6): about 25% of titles
- Ellerslie School (primary, Years 1–8): about 40% of titles
- Royal Oak Intermediate School (intermediate, Years 7–8): about 5% of titles
- Baradene College (secondary): all or nearly all titles
- One Tree Hill 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 Penrose
91% of Penrose's titles are within 400 m of a stop with a scheduled weekday service, slightly above Auckland as a whole (82%).
75% are that close to a frequent stop (60 or more departures that day), above the council (54%).
49% are within 800 m of a train station or ferry wharf.
The typical title is 181 m in a straight line from its nearest stop.
Timetable of Wednesday 30 September 2026, Auckland Transport. Sources and limits
Places of worship near Penrose
OpenStreetMap maps 8 places of worship inside Penrose (5 Christian, 3 other or not recorded).
Nearest mapped place of each tradition within 10 km:
- Christian: Every Nation Christian Church, under 1 km away
- Hindu: Shri Shirdi Saibaba Mandir, 3.6 km away
- Buddhist: SGI New Zealand Cultural Centre, 1.6 km away
- Muslim: Ellerslie Islamic Centre, 2.2 km away
- Sikh: Gurdwara Sahib, 3.8 km away
- Jewish: Beth Shalom Progressive Synagogue, 5.4 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 Penrose
The closest match on the measures on this site is Ahuriri in Napier City, nearest on distance to the coast, heat pumps, home ownership. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahuriri | Napier City | 4.0% | No data | 62.8 | distance to the coast, heat pumps, home ownership |
| Tauranga | Tauranga City | 14.3% | $650 | 50.8 | slope, stand-alone houses, distance to the coast |
| Orewa | Auckland | 14.4% | $775 | 53.1 | elevation, land per flat, commuting on foot or by bike |
| Mount Wellington | Auckland | 24.1% | No data | No data | distance to a hospital, elevation, distance to the coast |
| Ōmokoroa | Western Bay of Plenty District | 1.7% | $700 | 54.7 | elevation, heat pumps, distance to the coast |
Questions
What schools are in Penrose?
No school site lies inside Penrose's boundary. The nearest school is Bailey Road School (1.0 km in a straight line). Secondary-school home zones covering most of its titles are Baradene College and One Tree Hill College; check the school's own zone map for any address.