Living in Mosgiel: schools, census and property titles
The 7,028 live property titles in Mosgiel, Dunedin City are almost all freehold (82%), as recorded by LINZ on 30 September 2026. Cross-lease titles number 626 (8.9%), close to the national share of 8.7%.
- Cross-lease titles
- 626
- Share of live titles
- 8.9%
- Live titles in total
- 7,028
- Dunedin City share
- 4.9%
- New Zealand share
- 8.7%
- Rank by share in Dunedin City
- 6 of 18
- Rank by share in New Zealand
- joint 353 of 644
Mosgiel at a glance
Where Mosgiel differs most from suburbs across New Zealand: median age (higher than 97% of NZ suburbs); homes with a heat pump (higher than 92% 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
- Mosgiel is listed under Dunedin City.
- 7,028 live titles are recorded here, including 626 cross-lease titles (8.9%).
- The page includes 2023 Census context for the statistical area that represents this suburb.
Contextual observations
- Cross-lease titles make up 8.9% of the recorded title mix. That describes the suburb, not any particular home.
- Unit titles account for 8.1% of recorded titles, so title structure can vary within the suburb.
- 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.
- Mapped public-transport context is not available for this suburb.
Title mix in Mosgiel
| Title type | Live titles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 5,730 | 81.5% |
| Cross lease | 626 | 8.9% |
| Unit title | 568 | 8.1% |
| Leasehold | 42 | 0.6% |
| Other record types | 62 | 0.9% |
| Total | 7,028 | 100% |
Counts are titles, not homes; the register can lag conversions, so check the certificate of title. Sources and limits
How Mosgiel compares
Nationally, 8.7% of live titles are cross-lease; Mosgiel is close to the national share (8.7%).
Across Dunedin City as a whole, the share is 4.9%; Mosgiel is about 1.8 times the overall Dunedin City share (4.9%).
How cross-leases in Mosgiel are set up
Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (11%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.
More schemes have four or more flats on one section (34%, against 11% nationally), up to 9.
Carports appear in more leases (29% of schemes, against 13% nationally).
| Scheme structure | Mosgiel | Dunedin City | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-lease schemes (shared sections) | 203 | 1,210 | 87,651 |
| Two-flat schemes | 58.1% | 70.9% | 76.2% |
| Three-flat schemes | 8.4% | 10.7% | 12.2% |
| Four or more flats | 33.5% | 18.2% | 11.4% |
| Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey) | 809 m² | 632 m² | 908 m² |
| Typical land per flat | 298 m² | 270 m² | 408 m² |
| Schemes with a garage written into a lease | 37.9% | 32.4% | 28.4% |
| Schemes with a carport in a lease | 29.1% | 17.5% | 13.3% |
| Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area | 10.8% | 3.6% | 4.5% |
| Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem) | 11.3% | 10.2% | 35.6% |
| Median year of earliest current title | 1991 | 1980 | 1988 |
| Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more | 69 | 239 | 54,978 |
Unit titles and leasehold in Mosgiel
Unit titles are 8% of Mosgiel's titles, well above Dunedin City (4%) and close to New Zealand (8%). They belong to 58 developments, each run by a body corporate; 4 have 50 or more units.
42 titles (0.6%) are leasehold, 25 of them units in a unit-title development.
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 | 6 |
| More than 50 years left | 0 |
| Term mentions renewal (including perpetually renewable) | 7 |
| Term not stated or not readable | 28 |
New titles in Mosgiel since 2020
772 of Mosgiel's current titles (11%) were first issued since 2020, well above Dunedin City's suburbs with new-title figures taken together (7%) and slightly below New Zealand (12%).
That rate is the highest of 17 in Dunedin City.
78 are cross-lease titles, often re-issued when a flats plan is updated.
| Title type | Since 2020 | Since 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 671 | 345 |
| Unit title | 15 | 15 |
| Cross-lease | 78 | 31 |
| Leasehold | 3 | 1 |
| Other | 5 | 2 |
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 Mosgiel
The typical building in Mosgiel stands on ground sloping 0.7° (read on an 8 m grid, so short steep banks may be understated), in the flattest quarter of 18 in Dunedin City.
Nearly all of its 9,666 measured buildings (96%) stand on ground under 5°.
The land rises from about 3 m to 166 m, and 4% of all of it, including reserves and gullies, is 15° or steeper.
Slope is not a measure of ground stability. Sources and limits
Distance to the coast from Mosgiel
Mosgiel is inland: the typical title is 5.2 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 Mosgiel: 2023 Census
Mosgiel's titles fall in 8 census areas (Stats NZ statistical areas). The 4 shown below hold 82% of its titles; their figures are shown side by side and are not added together.
Fewer workers walk or cycle to work in Mosgiel East than across Dunedin City: 3.3% against 11.4%.
More residents are 65 or over in Mosgiel East than across Dunedin City: 38.8% against 17.3%.
Fewer workers commute by bus, train or ferry in Mosgiel East than across Dunedin City: 2.2% against 4.6%.
| Measure | Mosgiel East 23% of titles | Mosgiel Central 23% of titles | Seddon Park 21% of titles | Bush Road 15% of titles | Dunedin City whole council |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Usual residents | 3,123 | 2,682 | 3,036 | 2,373 | 128,901 |
| Change since 2018 | +13.8% | +2.9% | +5.9% | +0.6% | +2.1% |
| Change since 2013 | +55.1% | +3.1% | +15.4% | +1.3% | +7.2% |
| Median age | 55.6 | 51.9 | 45.4 | 47.2 | 37 |
| Households | 1,344 | 1,266 | 1,332 | 1,023 | 49,188 |
| Own or part-own their home (including family trusts) | 86.2% | 67.7% | 66.0% | 77.4% | 68.1% |
| Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting) | 13.6% | 32.1% | 34.2% | 22.3% | 31.8% |
| Median household income | $70,200 | $55,100 | $53,000 | $64,800 | $80,500 |
| Median weekly rent, renting households | $400 | $370 | $220 | $358 | $400 |
| Dwellings unoccupied on census night | 5.8% | 7.1% | 5.5% | 5.0% | 8.2% |
| Ages | |||||
| Under 15 | 13.6% | 13.2% | 18.1% | 15.2% | 14.8% |
| 15 to 29 | 11.3% | 15.3% | 14.6% | 16.1% | 26.7% |
| 30 to 64 | 36.1% | 37.4% | 37.8% | 41.7% | 41.2% |
| 65 and over | 38.8% | 34.1% | 29.4% | 26.9% | 17.3% |
| Where people came from | |||||
| Born overseas | 13.3% | 13.8% | 13.2% | 11.5% | 21.2% |
| Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years | 10.1% | 18.0% | 22.6% | 11.1% | 22.7% |
| Lived elsewhere in New Zealand 5 years ago (of all residents, including children born since) | 44.9% | 45.8% | 41.7% | 38.0% | 45.1% |
| Lived overseas 5 years ago (of all residents) | 1.4% | 1.9% | 3.7% | 2.3% | 3.7% |
| Moved here in the last year (of all residents) | 14.0% | 16.7% | 12.0% | 11.6% | 24.0% |
| Work and study (people 15 and over) | |||||
| Bachelor degree or higher | 18.9% | 15.3% | 14.6% | 15.7% | 29.0% |
| Employed full-time | 38.6% | 41.9% | 39.3% | 45.9% | 44.5% |
| Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate) | 1.0% | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1.9% | 3.2% |
| Managers and professionals (of those employed) | 43.0% | 35.4% | 32.8% | 34.2% | 42.6% |
| Median personal income | $34,100 | $33,300 | $30,800 | $35,200 | $33,500 |
| Getting to work (of those employed) | |||||
| Work from home | 13.9% | 10.4% | 11.2% | 8.5% | 12.6% |
| Car, truck or van | 80.4% | 78.7% | 78.9% | 84.2% | 70.3% |
| Bus, train or ferry | 2.2% | 3.4% | 3.6% | 2.0% | 4.6% |
| Walk or cycle | 3.3% | 7.5% | 6.2% | 4.5% | 11.4% |
| Households and families | |||||
| One-person households | 30.0% | 41.2% | 35.4% | 28.8% | 27.0% |
| Average people per household | 2.2 | 2 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.5 |
| Households with no motor vehicle | 7.4% | 10.2% | 10.7% | 5.5% | 8.8% |
| Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms) | 0.9% | 2.2% | 3.2% | 2.1% | 3.4% |
| Couples with children (of families) | 33.3% | 29.4% | 34.1% | 32.2% | 38.4% |
| Couples without children | 58.2% | 51.9% | 44.0% | 50.4% | 46.5% |
| One-parent families | 8.5% | 18.3% | 21.6% | 16.9% | 15.1% |
| Homes | |||||
| Separate (stand-alone) houses | 77.2% | 68.6% | 72.0% | 86.8% | 81.2% |
| Average bedrooms | 3 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 3 | 3 |
| Heated with a heat pump | 86.3% | 88.7% | 81.1% | 84.5% | 77.7% |
| Damp, always or sometimes | 4.1% | 10.6% | 10.8% | 13.2% | 17.3% |
| Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes | 2.3% | 6.5% | 7.7% | 6.8% | 11.5% |
Schools and hospitals near Mosgiel
LINZ maps 5 school sites inside Mosgiel, among them Amana Christian School (Composite) and Elmgrove School (Contributing).
- Amana Christian School (Composite)
- Elmgrove School (Contributing)
- Silverstream (South) Primary School (Contributing)
- St Mary's School (Mosgiel) (Full Primary)
- Taieri College (Secondary (Year 7-15))
- Nearest school: Taieri College (0.7 km)
- Nearest secondary school: Taieri College (0.7 km)
- Nearest public general hospital: Dunedin Hospital (12.4 km)
School enrolment zones in Mosgiel: a guide
Four secondary schools have a home zone covering most of Mosgiel's titles, among them John McGlashan College, Kavanagh College and St Hildas Collegiate.
- Silverstream (South) Primary School (primary, Years 1–6): about 50% of titles
- Elmgrove School (primary, Years 1–6): about 40% of titles
- East Taieri School (primary, Years 1–6): about 15% of titles
- Dunedin Rudolf Steiner School (primary, Years 1–8): all or nearly all titles
- Liberton Christian School (primary, Years 1–8): all or nearly all titles
- Columba College (composite): all or nearly all titles
- John McGlashan College (secondary): all or nearly all titles
- Kavanagh College (secondary): all or nearly all titles
- St Hildas Collegiate (secondary): all or nearly all titles
- Taieri 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
Places of worship near Mosgiel
OpenStreetMap maps 7 places of worship inside Mosgiel (7 Christian).
Nearest mapped place of each tradition within 10 km:
- Christian: Mosgiel Presbyterian Church, under 1 km away
Listed as facilities for access; not an indicator of who lives here. Sources and limits
Other suburbs in Dunedin City with many cross-leases
- Saint Kilda: 573 cross-lease titles (25.3%)
- South Dunedin: 356 cross-lease titles (16.9%)
- Caversham: 165 cross-lease titles (12.2%)
- Dunedin Central: 123 cross-lease titles (3.4%)
- North East Valley: 96 cross-lease titles (5.4%)
- Roslyn: 85 cross-lease titles (9.8%)
- Saint Clair: 85 cross-lease titles (5.5%)
Suburbs like Mosgiel
The closest match on the measures on this site is Highfield in Timaru District, nearest on recent movers within NZ, heat pumps, household income. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highfield | Timaru District | 11.4% | $500 | 51 | recent movers within NZ, heat pumps, household income |
| Allenton | Ashburton District | 8.6% | $435 | 51.6 | slope, cross-lease share, home ownership |
| Temuka | Timaru District | 5.9% | $450 | 50 | slope, distance to the coast, elevation |
| Gleniti | Timaru District | 6.4% | No data | 48 | degrees, commuting on foot or by bike, distance to the coast |
| Springlands | Marlborough District | 6.5% | No data | 48.8 | slope, working from home, elevation |
Questions
What schools are in Mosgiel?
LINZ maps 5 school sites inside Mosgiel, including Amana Christian School, Elmgrove School and Silverstream (South) Primary School. The nearest secondary school to its centre is Taieri College (0.7 km in a straight line). Secondary-school home zones covering most of its titles include John McGlashan College, Kavanagh College and St Hildas Collegiate; check the school's own zone map for any address.