Suburbs in Matamata-Piako District: rents, census and property titles
LINZ recorded 19,021 live titles in Matamata-Piako District on 30 September 2026: 94% freehold, then cross-lease at 3.3%. Its 632 cross-lease titles (3.3%) are well below the national share of 8.7%.
Matamata-Piako District cross-lease titles
- Cross-lease titles
- 632
- Share of live titles
- 3.3%
- Live titles in total
- 19,021
- New Zealand share
- 8.7%
- Suburbs with 30+ cross-lease titles
- 3
Title mix in Matamata-Piako District
| Title type | Live titles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 17,840 | 93.8% |
| Cross lease | 632 | 3.3% |
| Unit title | 360 | 1.9% |
| Leasehold | 119 | 0.6% |
| Other record types | 70 | 0.4% |
| Total | 19,021 | 100% |
Counts are titles, not homes. Sources and limits
How cross-leases in Matamata-Piako District are set up
Separate exclusive-use areas are less common (3% of schemes, against 5% nationally).
Fewer schemes have four or more flats on one section (7%, against 11% nationally), up to 18.
Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (24%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.
| Scheme structure | Matamata-Piako District | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|
| Cross-lease schemes (shared sections) | 273 | 87,651 |
| Two-flat schemes | 83.5% | 76.2% |
| Three-flat schemes | 9.5% | 12.2% |
| Four or more flats | 6.6% | 11.4% |
| Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey) | 951 m² | 908 m² |
| Typical land per flat | 431 m² | 408 m² |
| Schemes with a garage written into a lease | 27.1% | 28.4% |
| Schemes with a carport in a lease | 11.0% | 13.3% |
| Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area | 2.9% | 4.5% |
| Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem) | 23.8% | 35.6% |
| Median year of earliest current title | 1986 | 1988 |
| Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more | 212 | 54,978 |
Suburbs in Matamata-Piako District by cross-lease share
| Suburb | Cross-lease titles | Live titles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morrinsville | 276 | 5,341 | 5.2% |
| Matamata | 266 | 5,370 | 5.0% |
| Te Aroha | 83 | 2,684 | 3.1% |
Karapiro, Tauhei and Okoroire straddle another council; LINZ lists Matamata-Piako District first, so their titles are counted here.
Matamata-Piako District at a glance
15% of titles in Matamata-Piako District's suburbs were first issued since 2020, above New Zealand (12%). The wider district is a little wetter than the national average for homes (1,090 mm of rain a year, against 1,000 mm) and close to it (14.0°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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morrinsville | 5.2% | $555 | 17.8% | 41.8 | 80.6% | 1.5° | 35.5 km |
| Matamata | 5.0% | No data | 16.4% | 43.4 | 82.3% | 0.7° | 25.9 km |
| Te Aroha | 3.1% | $560 | 6.2% | 49.2 | 71.8% | 1.5° | 18.8 km |
New titles by year in Matamata-Piako District
2025 brought 366 titles still live, fewer than the 5-year average before it (440), against a peak of 595 in 2023.
| Year issued | All new titles | Freehold | Unit titles | Cross-lease | Leasehold | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 295 | 293 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 372 | 365 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| 2022 | 534 | 528 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 595 | 572 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2024 | 406 | 399 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 366 | 360 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | 267 | 264 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Unit titles in Matamata-Piako District, by suburb
Matamata-Piako District at the 2023 Census
| Measure | Matamata-Piako District 2023 Census |
|---|---|
| Usual residents | 37,098 |
| Change since 2018 | +7.8% |
| Change since 2013 | +17.6% |
| Median age | 40.8 |
| Households | 13,965 |
| Own or part-own their home (including family trusts) | 69.4% |
| Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting) | 30.6% |
| Median household income | $86,200 |
| Median weekly rent, renting households | $350 |
| Dwellings unoccupied on census night | 7.0% |
| Ages | |
| Under 15 | 19.7% |
| 15 to 29 | 16.7% |
| 30 to 64 | 42.1% |
| 65 and over | 21.5% |
| Where people came from | |
| Born overseas | 15.8% |
| Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years | 19.3% |
| Lived elsewhere in New Zealand 5 years ago (of all residents, including children born since) | 47.3% |
| Lived overseas 5 years ago (of all residents) | 2.6% |
| Moved here in the last year (of all residents) | 18.4% |
| Work and study (people 15 and over) | |
| Bachelor degree or higher | 14.9% |
| Employed full-time | 50.1% |
| Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate) | 2.1% |
| Managers and professionals (of those employed) | 42.4% |
| Median personal income | $40,000 |
| Getting to work (of those employed) | |
| Work from home | 21.9% |
| Car, truck or van | 71.7% |
| Bus, train or ferry | 0.1% |
| Walk or cycle | 4.2% |
| Households and families | |
| One-person households | 23.9% |
| Average people per household | 2.6 |
| Households with no motor vehicle | 3.7% |
| Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms) | 4.1% |
| Couples with children (of families) | 38.6% |
| Couples without children | 47.0% |
| One-parent families | 14.5% |
| Homes | |
| Separate (stand-alone) houses | 88.5% |
| Average bedrooms | 3.2 |
| Heated with a heat pump | 73.8% |
| Damp, always or sometimes | 16.2% |
| Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes | 12.4% |