Suburbs in Dunedin City: rents, census and property titles
LINZ recorded 61,864 live titles in Dunedin City on 30 September 2026: 89% freehold, then cross-lease at 4.9%. Its 3,044 cross-lease titles (4.9%) are well below the national share of 8.7%.
Dunedin City cross-lease titles
- Cross-lease titles
- 3,044
- Share of live titles
- 4.9%
- Live titles in total
- 61,864
- New Zealand share
- 8.7%
- Suburbs with 30+ cross-lease titles
- 20
Title mix in Dunedin City
| Title type | Live titles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 55,102 | 89.1% |
| Cross lease | 3,044 | 4.9% |
| Unit title | 2,644 | 4.3% |
| Leasehold | 545 | 0.9% |
| Other record types | 529 | 0.9% |
| Total | 61,864 | 100% |
Counts are titles, not homes. Sources and limits
How cross-leases in Dunedin City are set up
Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (10%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.
More schemes have four or more flats on one section (18%, against 11% nationally), up to 13.
Less land per flat than is typical in New Zealand: about 270 m² per flat, against 408 m².
| Scheme structure | Dunedin City | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|
| Cross-lease schemes (shared sections) | 1,210 | 87,651 |
| Two-flat schemes | 70.9% | 76.2% |
| Three-flat schemes | 10.7% | 12.2% |
| Four or more flats | 18.2% | 11.4% |
| Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey) | 632 m² | 908 m² |
| Typical land per flat | 270 m² | 408 m² |
| Schemes with a garage written into a lease | 32.4% | 28.4% |
| Schemes with a carport in a lease | 17.5% | 13.3% |
| Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area | 3.6% | 4.5% |
| Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem) | 10.2% | 35.6% |
| Median year of earliest current title | 1980 | 1988 |
| Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more | 239 | 54,978 |
Among suburbs with at least 300 live and 30 cross-lease titles, the highest cross-lease shares in Dunedin City are in Saint Kilda (25.3%), South Dunedin (16.9%), Forbury Corner (16.7%), Caversham (12.2%), Roslyn (9.8%).
Suburbs in Dunedin City by cross-lease share
| Suburb | Cross-lease titles | Live titles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Kilda | 573 | 2,267 | 25.3% |
| South Dunedin | 356 | 2,106 | 16.9% |
| Forbury Corner | 67 | 401 | 16.7% |
| Caversham | 165 | 1,349 | 12.2% |
| Roslyn | 85 | 863 | 9.8% |
| Mosgiel | 626 | 7,028 | 8.9% |
| Maori Hill | 98 | 1,189 | 8.2% |
| Musselburgh | 54 | 667 | 8.1% |
| Kenmure | 50 | 904 | 5.5% |
| Saint Clair | 85 | 1,537 | 5.5% |
| Tainui | 30 | 544 | 5.5% |
| North East Valley | 96 | 1,768 | 5.4% |
| Kaikorai | 46 | 855 | 5.4% |
| Belleknowes | 39 | 825 | 4.7% |
| Mornington | 45 | 1,104 | 4.1% |
| Andersons Bay | 49 | 1,211 | 4.0% |
| Dunedin Central | 123 | 3,614 | 3.4% |
| North Dunedin | 67 | 2,261 | 3.0% |
| Green Island | 48 | 1,632 | 2.9% |
| Fairfield | 31 | 1,109 | 2.8% |
Suburbs that straddle two councils are counted under the first council LINZ lists, so this page can differ slightly from a strict council-boundary count.
Dunedin City at a glance
7% of titles in Dunedin City's suburbs were first issued since 2020, well below New Zealand (12%). 35% of titles are within 1 km of the sea or harbour edge. The wider district is drier than the national average for homes (690 mm of rain a year, against 1,000 mm) and cooler than it (10.6°C, against 13.5°C), on NASA POWER's ~50 km grid.
| Suburb | Cross-lease share of titles | Median weekly rent, new tenancies | Titles first issued since 2020 | Median age | Homes with a heat pump | Median slope under buildings | Typical distance to the coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Kilda | 25.3% | $535 | 5.3% | 42.4 | 85.5% | 0.7° | 0.7 km |
| South Dunedin | 16.9% | $540 | 3.1% | 46.3 | 72.4% | 0.7° | 1.1 km |
| Forbury Corner | 16.7% | $573 | No data | 39.7 | 81.2% | 0.7° | 1.3 km |
| Caversham | 12.2% | $570 | 7.6% | 42.9 | 77.0% | 4.1° | 1.7 km |
| Roslyn | 9.8% | $650 | 3.8% | 41.2 | 83.9% | 7.6° | 1.8 km |
| Mosgiel | 8.9% | No data | 11.0% | 55.6 | 86.3% | 0.7° | 5.2 km |
| Musselburgh | 8.1% | $565 | 7.8% | 38.7 | 81.5% | 2.6° | 0.5 km |
| Kenmure | 5.5% | No data | 7.4% | 37.3 | 83.8% | 8.1° | 2.8 km |
| Saint Clair | 5.5% | $740 | 6.4% | 44.9 | 82.5% | 3° | 0.5 km |
| Tainui | 5.5% | No data | 5.5% | 37.2 | 80.0% | 4.5° | 0.7 km |
| North East Valley | 5.4% | No data | 2.7% | 22.5 | 78.3% | 6.2° | 2.3 km |
| Kaikorai | 5.4% | $538 | 2.9% | 38.5 | 77.9% | 7.8° | 2.3 km |
| Belleknowes | 4.7% | $615 | 2.5% | 41.5 | 87.8% | 7.3° | 2.2 km |
| Mornington | 4.1% | $538 | 4.3% | 35.8 | 80.0% | 8.1° | 2 km |
| Andersons Bay | 4.0% | No data | 4.3% | 40.6 | 83.4% | 6.9° | 0.6 km |
| Dunedin Central | 3.4% | $400 | 8.6% | 23.6 | 74.7% | 5.4° | 0.8 km |
| North Dunedin | 3.0% | $280 | 6.0% | 20.1 | 79.7% | 2.3° | 1.3 km |
| Green Island | 2.9% | $570 | 5.9% | 37.8 | 77.0% | 6.2° | 1.9 km |
New titles by year in Dunedin City
2025 brought 555 titles still live, about the same as the 5-year average before it (587), against a peak of 629 in 2021.
| Year issued | All new titles | Freehold | Unit titles | Cross-lease | Leasehold | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 513 | 442 | 35 | 8 | 20 | 8 |
| 2021 | 629 | 449 | 120 | 26 | 22 | 12 |
| 2022 | 585 | 504 | 29 | 16 | 30 | 6 |
| 2023 | 611 | 521 | 62 | 3 | 14 | 11 |
| 2024 | 599 | 540 | 36 | 3 | 12 | 8 |
| 2025 | 555 | 443 | 51 | 33 | 19 | 9 |
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | 321 | 291 | 6 | 1 | 20 | 3 |
Cross-lease titles in Dunedin City, by suburb
Unit titles in Dunedin City, by suburb
Dunedin City at the 2023 Census
| Measure | Dunedin City 2023 Census |
|---|---|
| Usual residents | 128,901 |
| Change since 2018 | +2.1% |
| Change since 2013 | +7.2% |
| Median age | 37 |
| Households | 49,188 |
| Own or part-own their home (including family trusts) | 68.1% |
| Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting) | 31.8% |
| Median household income | $80,500 |
| Median weekly rent, renting households | $400 |
| Dwellings unoccupied on census night | 8.2% |
| Ages | |
| Under 15 | 14.8% |
| 15 to 29 | 26.7% |
| 30 to 64 | 41.2% |
| 65 and over | 17.3% |
| Where people came from | |
| Born overseas | 21.2% |
| Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years | 22.7% |
| Lived elsewhere in New Zealand 5 years ago (of all residents, including children born since) | 45.1% |
| Lived overseas 5 years ago (of all residents) | 3.7% |
| Moved here in the last year (of all residents) | 24.0% |
| Work and study (people 15 and over) | |
| Bachelor degree or higher | 29.0% |
| Employed full-time | 44.5% |
| Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate) | 3.2% |
| Managers and professionals (of those employed) | 42.6% |
| Median personal income | $33,500 |
| Getting to work (of those employed) | |
| Work from home | 12.6% |
| Car, truck or van | 70.3% |
| Bus, train or ferry | 4.6% |
| Walk or cycle | 11.4% |
| Households and families | |
| One-person households | 27.0% |
| Average people per household | 2.5 |
| Households with no motor vehicle | 8.8% |
| Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms) | 3.4% |
| Couples with children (of families) | 38.4% |
| Couples without children | 46.5% |
| One-parent families | 15.1% |
| Homes | |
| Separate (stand-alone) houses | 81.2% |
| Average bedrooms | 3 |
| Heated with a heat pump | 77.7% |
| Damp, always or sometimes | 17.3% |
| Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes | 11.5% |