Living in Tainui: schools, census and property titles
The 544 live property titles in Tainui, Dunedin City are almost all freehold (94%), as recorded by LINZ on 30 September 2026. Cross-lease titles number 30 (5.5%), well below the national share of 8.7%.
- Cross-lease titles
- 30
- Share of live titles
- 5.5%
- Live titles in total
- 544
- Dunedin City share
- 4.9%
- New Zealand share
- 8.7%
- Rank by share in Dunedin City
- joint 8 of 18
- Rank by share in New Zealand
- joint 467 of 644
Tainui at a glance
Higher or lower is not better or worse. Sources and limits
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What the data tells you
Recorded facts
- Tainui is listed under Dunedin City.
- 544 live titles are recorded here, including 30 cross-lease titles (5.5%).
- The page includes 2023 Census context for the statistical area that represents this suburb.
Contextual observations
- Cross-lease titles make up 5.5% of the recorded title mix. That describes the suburb, not any particular home.
- 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 Tainui
| Title type | Live titles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 514 | 94.5% |
| Cross lease | 30 | 5.5% |
| Unit title | 0 | 0.0% |
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% |
| Other record types | 0 | 0.0% |
| Total | 544 | 100% |
Counts are titles, not homes; the register can lag conversions, so check the certificate of title. Sources and limits
How Tainui compares
Nationally, 8.7% of live titles are cross-lease; Tainui is well below the national share (8.7%).
Across Dunedin City as a whole, the share is 4.9%; Tainui is slightly higher than the overall Dunedin City share (4.9%).
How cross-leases in Tainui are set up
Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (7%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.
Fewer leases include a garage (13% of schemes, against 28% nationally).
Carports appear in more leases (20% of schemes, against 13% nationally).
| Scheme structure | Tainui | Dunedin City | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-lease schemes (shared sections) | 15 | 1,210 | 87,651 |
| Two-flat schemes | 100.0% | 70.9% | 76.2% |
| Three-flat schemes | 0.0% | 10.7% | 12.2% |
| Four or more flats | 0.0% | 18.2% | 11.4% |
| Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey) | 786 m² | 632 m² | 908 m² |
| Typical land per flat | 393 m² | 270 m² | 408 m² |
| Schemes with a garage written into a lease | 13.3% | 32.4% | 28.4% |
| Schemes with a carport in a lease | 20.0% | 17.5% | 13.3% |
| Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area | 6.7% | 3.6% | 4.5% |
| Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem) | 6.7% | 10.2% | 35.6% |
| Median year of earliest current title | 1976 | 1980 | 1988 |
| Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more | 11 | 239 | 54,978 |
New titles in Tainui since 2020
30 of Tainui's current titles (6%) were first issued since 2020, slightly below Dunedin City's suburbs with new-title figures taken together (7%) and well below New Zealand (12%).
Most came recently: 28 since 2023.
| Title type | Since 2020 | Since 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 30 | 28 |
| Unit title | 0 | 0 |
| Cross-lease | 0 | 0 |
| Leasehold | 0 | 0 |
| Other | 0 | 0 |
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 Tainui
The typical building in Tainui stands on ground sloping 4.5° (read on an 8 m grid, so short steep banks may be understated).
Slope is not a measure of ground stability. Sources and limits
Distance to the coast from Tainui
0% of Tainui's titles are within 200 m of the sea or harbour edge, 4% within 500 m and 100% within 1 km. The typical title is 700 m 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 Tainui: 2023 Census
About 94% of Tainui's titles are in the census area Tainui (a Stats NZ statistical area), so these figures describe that area, not Tainui exactly.
Fewer households have no car in Tainui than across Dunedin City: 3.9% against 8.8%.
Fewer workers walk or cycle to work in Tainui than across Dunedin City: 7.8% against 11.4%.
Fewer residents are 65 or over in Tainui than across Dunedin City: 12.6% against 17.3%.
| Measure | Tainui | Dunedin City whole council |
|---|---|---|
| Usual residents | 2,049 | 128,901 |
| Change since 2018 | +3.5% | +2.1% |
| Change since 2013 | +3.3% | +7.2% |
| Median age | 37.2 | 37 |
| Households | 789 | 49,188 |
| Own or part-own their home (including family trusts) | 80.2% | 68.1% |
| Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting) | 19.8% | 31.8% |
| Median household income | $98,300 | $80,500 |
| Median weekly rent, renting households | $430 | $400 |
| Dwellings unoccupied on census night | 3.6% | 8.2% |
| Ages | ||
| Under 15 | 19.0% | 14.8% |
| 15 to 29 | 19.8% | 26.7% |
| 30 to 64 | 48.5% | 41.2% |
| 65 and over | 12.6% | 17.3% |
| Where people came from | ||
| Born overseas | 20.0% | 21.2% |
| Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years | 23.0% | 22.7% |
| Lived elsewhere in New Zealand 5 years ago (of all residents, including children born since) | 35.0% | 45.1% |
| Lived overseas 5 years ago (of all residents) | 3.9% | 3.7% |
| Moved here in the last year (of all residents) | 15.8% | 24.0% |
| Work and study (people 15 and over) | ||
| Bachelor degree or higher | 36.5% | 29.0% |
| Employed full-time | 56.2% | 44.5% |
| Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate) | 2.5% | 3.2% |
| Managers and professionals (of those employed) | 45.6% | 42.6% |
| Median personal income | $47,700 | $33,500 |
| Getting to work (of those employed) | ||
| Work from home | 9.8% | 12.6% |
| Car, truck or van | 75.1% | 70.3% |
| Bus, train or ferry | 6.3% | 4.6% |
| Walk or cycle | 7.8% | 11.4% |
| Households and families | ||
| One-person households | 23.9% | 27.0% |
| Average people per household | 2.6 | 2.5 |
| Households with no motor vehicle | 3.9% | 8.8% |
| Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms) | 2.7% | 3.4% |
| Couples with children (of families) | 43.4% | 38.4% |
| Couples without children | 39.7% | 46.5% |
| One-parent families | 16.4% | 15.1% |
| Homes | ||
| Separate (stand-alone) houses | 94.3% | 81.2% |
| Average bedrooms | 3 | 3 |
| Heated with a heat pump | 80.0% | 77.7% |
| Damp, always or sometimes | 17.3% | 17.3% |
| Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes | 12.0% | 11.5% |
Schools and hospitals near Tainui
One school site lies inside Tainui: Tainui School (Contributing).
- Tainui School (Contributing)
- Nearest school: Tainui School (0.3 km)
- Nearest secondary school: Bayfield High School (0.6 km)
- Nearest public general hospital: Dunedin Hospital (3.7 km)
School enrolment zones in Tainui: a guide
Four secondary schools have a home zone covering most of Tainui's titles, among them John McGlashan College, Kavanagh College and Queens High School.
- Tainui School (primary, Years 1–6): all or nearly all titles
- Andersons Bay School (primary, Years 1–6): about 45% of titles
- Musselburgh School (primary, Years 1–6): about 35% 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
- Tahuna Normal Intermediate (intermediate, Years 7–8): 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
- Queens High School (secondary): all or nearly all titles
- St Hildas Collegiate (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 Tainui
No place of worship is mapped in OpenStreetMap inside Tainui's boundary.
Nearest mapped place of each tradition within 10 km:
- Christian: Andersons Bay Presbyterian Church (Former), under 1 km away
- Muslim: Masjid Al Huda, 3.6 km away
- Jewish: Dunedin Jewish Congregation, 4.6 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
- Mosgiel: 626 cross-lease titles (8.9%)
- 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%)
Suburbs like Tainui
The closest match on the measures on this site is Andersons Bay in Dunedin City, nearest on distance to the coast, distance to a hospital, recent movers within NZ. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andersons Bay | Dunedin City | 4.0% | No data | 40.6 | distance to the coast, distance to a hospital, recent movers within NZ |
| Musselburgh | Dunedin City | 8.1% | $565 | 38.7 | damp homes, distance to the coast, household income |
| Kenmure | Dunedin City | 5.5% | No data | 37.3 | cross-lease share, schools, median age |
| Green Island, Dunedin City | Dunedin City | 2.9% | $570 | 37.8 | working from home, population change, new titles |
| Kaikorai | Dunedin City | 5.4% | $538 | 38.5 | working from home, cross-lease share, children |
Questions
What schools are in Tainui?
LINZ maps 1 school site inside Tainui: Tainui School. The nearest secondary school to its centre is Bayfield High School (0.6 km in a straight line). Secondary-school home zones covering most of its titles include John McGlashan College, Kavanagh College and Queens High School; check the school's own zone map for any address.