Suburbs in Porirua City: rents, census and property titles

LINZ recorded 21,576 live titles in Porirua City on 30 September 2026: 92% freehold, then cross-lease at 4.2%. Its 911 cross-lease titles (4.2%) are well below the national share of 8.7%.

Porirua City cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles: 911
Share of live titles: 4.2%
Live titles in total: 21,576
New Zealand share: 8.7%
Suburbs with 30+ cross-lease titles: 9

2026-09-30 https://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/50804-nz-property-titles/

Title mix in Porirua City

Title type	Live titles	Share
Freehold	19,839	91.9%
Cross lease	911	4.2%
Unit title	553	2.6%
Leasehold	112	0.5%
Other record types	161	0.7%
Total	21,576	100%

Counts are titles, not homes. Sources and limits

How cross-leases in Porirua City are set up

Fewer leases include a garage (16% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

More schemes have four or more flats on one section (16%, against 11% nationally), up to 13.

Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (25%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.

Scheme structure	Porirua City	New Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)	358	87,651
Two-flat schemes	74.0%	76.2%
Three-flat schemes	9.8%	12.2%
Four or more flats	15.6%	11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)	916 m²	908 m²
Typical land per flat	404 m²	408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease	15.9%	28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease	12.3%	13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area	5.0%	4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)	25.4%	35.6%
Median year of earliest current title	1987	1988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more	206	54,978

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Among suburbs with at least 300 live and 30 cross-lease titles, the highest cross-lease shares in Porirua City are in Camborne (11.8%), Takapūwāhia (11.7%), Rānui (10.5%), Papakōwhai (8.1%), Tītahi Bay (7.3%).

Suburbs in Porirua City by cross-lease share

Suburb	Cross-lease titles	Live titles	Share
Camborne	81	686	11.8%
Takapūwāhia	58	495	11.7%
Rānui	134	1,275	10.5%
Papakōwhai	66	812	8.1%
Tītahi Bay	223	3,057	7.3%
Paremata	79	1,133	7.0%
Plimmerton	62	1,140	5.4%
Pukerua Bay	38	828	4.6%
Whitby	143	4,550	3.1%

Porirua City at a glance

11% of titles in Porirua City's suburbs were first issued since 2020, slightly below New Zealand (12%). 75% of titles are within 400 m of a public transport stop with a scheduled weekday service, and 13% within 400 m of a frequent one. 57% of titles are within 1 km of the sea or harbour edge. The wider district is a little drier than the national average for homes (910 mm of rain a year, against 1,000 mm) and close to it (12.6°C, against 13.5°C), on NASA POWER's ~50 km grid.

A dash means the figure is not available for that suburb.
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	Titles within 400 m of a public transport stop	Typical distance to the coast
Camborne	11.8%	No data	1.6%	40.9	64.5%	7.9°	0.0%	0.3 km
Takapūwāhia	11.7%	No data	3.2%	33.2	65.4%	5.2°	96.2%	0.5 km
Rānui	10.5%	No data	3.1%	32.5	71.9%	6.7°	64.4%	1.5 km
Papakōwhai	8.1%	No data	2.2%	40	61.8%	7.9°	100.0%	0.4 km
Tītahi Bay	7.3%	$535	6.8%	34.9	68.9%	6.4°	99.8%	0.4 km
Paremata	7.0%	$670	6.3%	45.9	61.5%	9.8°	79.6%	0.2 km
Plimmerton	5.4%	$673	8.8%	46.7	63.6%	7.3°	21.8%	0.2 km
Pukerua Bay	4.6%	$655	7.1%	41	63.0%	6.3°	36.6%	0.7 km
Whitby	3.1%	$795	15.1%	37.2	65.6%	6.4°	78.7%	0.9 km

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New titles by year in Porirua City

2025 was the busiest full year, with 499 titles still live, more than the 5-year average before it (319).

Year issued	All new titles	Freehold	Unit titles	Cross-lease	Leasehold	Other
2020	298	298	0	0	0	0
2021	481	479	0	2	0	0
2022	301	264	2	3	30	2
2023	298	239	53	2	1	3
2024	216	164	44	2	3	3
2025	499	441	51	0	1	6
2026 (Jan–Sep)	220	199	6	11	2	2

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Cross-lease titles in Porirua City, by suburb

Unit titles in Porirua City, by suburb

Porirua City at the 2023 Census

Measure	Porirua City 2023 Census
Usual residents	59,445
Change since 2018	+5.1%
Change since 2013	+14.9%
Median age	35.9
Households	19,020
Own or part-own their home (including family trusts)	66.9%
Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting)	33.0%
Median household income	$124,000
Median weekly rent, renting households	$400
Dwellings unoccupied on census night	5.5%
Ages
Under 15	22.1%
15 to 29	19.1%
30 to 64	45.8%
65 and over	13.0%
Where people came from
Born overseas	26.1%
Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years	13.4%
Lived elsewhere in New Zealand 5 years ago (of all residents, including children born since)	37.2%
Lived overseas 5 years ago (of all residents)	3.5%
Moved here in the last year (of all residents)	14.7%
Work and study (people 15 and over)
Bachelor degree or higher	27.2%
Employed full-time	54.8%
Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate)	3.6%
Managers and professionals (of those employed)	48.2%
Median personal income	$47,200
Getting to work (of those employed)
Work from home	18.3%
Car, truck or van	65.8%
Bus, train or ferry	13.0%
Walk or cycle	2.0%
Households and families
One-person households	16.6%
Average people per household	3
Households with no motor vehicle	6.0%
Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms)	8.9%
Couples with children (of families)	46.1%
Couples without children	32.9%
One-parent families	21.0%
Homes
Separate (stand-alone) houses	82.7%
Average bedrooms	3.2
Heated with a heat pump	66.1%
Damp, always or sometimes	22.7%
Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes	18.0%

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