Living in Tītahi Bay: rents, schools, census and property titles
The 3,057 live property titles in Tītahi Bay, Porirua City are almost all freehold (89%), as recorded by LINZ on 30 September 2026. Cross-lease titles number 223 (7.3%), slightly below the national share of 8.7%.
- Cross-lease titles
- 223
- Share of live titles
- 7.3%
- Live titles in total
- 3,057
- Porirua City share
- 4.2%
- New Zealand share
- 8.7%
- Rank by share in Porirua City
- 5 of 9
- Rank by share in New Zealand
- joint 400 of 644
Tītahi Bay 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
- Tītahi Bay is listed under Porirua City.
- 3,057 live titles are recorded here, including 223 cross-lease titles (7.3%).
- The page includes 2023 Census context for the statistical area that represents this suburb.
- The page includes MBIE new-tenancy rent figures for April–June 2026.
Contextual observations
- Cross-lease titles make up 7.3% of the recorded title mix. That describes the suburb, not any particular home.
- Unit titles account for 2.4% of recorded titles, so title structure can vary within the suburb.
- Public-transport figures describe how recorded titles sit near mapped stops. They do not describe a service from a particular property.
- 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
- The core title, Census, rent, transport and coast measures used by this page are available.
Title mix in Tītahi Bay
| Title type | Live titles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 2,710 | 88.6% |
| Cross lease | 223 | 7.3% |
| Unit title | 74 | 2.4% |
| Leasehold | 30 | 1.0% |
| Other record types | 20 | 0.7% |
| Total | 3,057 | 100% |
Counts are titles, not homes; the register can lag conversions, so check the certificate of title. Sources and limits
How Tītahi Bay compares
Nationally, 8.7% of live titles are cross-lease; Tītahi Bay is slightly lower than the national share (8.7%).
Across Porirua City as a whole, the share is 4.2%; Tītahi Bay is about 1.7 times the overall Porirua City share (4.2%).
How cross-leases in Tītahi Bay are set up
More schemes have four or more flats on one section (34%, against 11% nationally), up to 10.
Carports appear in fewer leases (7% of schemes, against 13% nationally).
Separate exclusive-use areas are less common (3% of schemes, against 5% nationally).
| Scheme structure | Tītahi Bay | Porirua City | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-lease schemes (shared sections) | 71 | 358 | 87,651 |
| Two-flat schemes | 53.5% | 74.0% | 76.2% |
| Three-flat schemes | 12.7% | 9.8% | 12.2% |
| Four or more flats | 33.8% | 15.6% | 11.4% |
| Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey) | 1,011 m² | 916 m² | 908 m² |
| Typical land per flat | 394 m² | 404 m² | 408 m² |
| Schemes with a garage written into a lease | 19.7% | 15.9% | 28.4% |
| Schemes with a carport in a lease | 7.0% | 12.3% | 13.3% |
| Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area | 2.8% | 5.0% | 4.5% |
| Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem) | 33.8% | 25.4% | 35.6% |
| Median year of earliest current title | 1989 | 1987 | 1988 |
| Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more | 33 | 206 | 54,978 |
Unit titles and leasehold in Tītahi Bay
Unit titles are 2% of Tītahi Bay's titles, well below Porirua City (3%) and well below New Zealand (8%). They belong to 14 developments, each run by a body corporate; half have 3 units or fewer.
30 titles (1.0%) are leasehold, 3 of them units in a unit-title development.
Most stated terms have more than 50 years to run.
Stated lease terms, as at 30 September 2026:
| Stated lease term | Titles |
|---|---|
| Stated term has ended | 0 |
| Under 10 years left | 0 |
| 10 to 50 years left | 0 |
| More than 50 years left | 23 |
| Term mentions renewal (including perpetually renewable) | 4 |
| Term not stated or not readable | 3 |
New titles in Tītahi Bay since 2020
209 of Tītahi Bay's current titles (7%) were first issued since 2020, well below Porirua City's suburbs with new-title figures taken together (11%) and well below New Zealand (12%).
| Title type | Since 2020 | Since 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 186 | 122 |
| Unit title | 8 | 8 |
| Cross-lease | 11 | 8 |
| Leasehold | 3 | 0 |
| Other | 1 | 1 |
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 Tītahi Bay
The typical building in Tītahi Bay stands on ground sloping 6.4° (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 Tītahi Bay
20% of Tītahi Bay's titles are within 200 m of the sea or harbour edge, 67% within 500 m and 100% within 1 km. The typical title is 400 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 Tītahi Bay: 2023 Census
Tītahi Bay's titles fall in 3 census areas (Stats NZ statistical areas). The 3 shown below hold 100% of its titles; their figures are shown side by side and are not added together.
More households have no car in Titahi Bay South than across Porirua City: 11.4% against 6.0%.
Fewer residents were born overseas in Titahi Bay South than across Porirua City: 17.2% against 26.1%.
More people live alone in Titahi Bay South than across Porirua City: 23.8% against 16.6%.
| Measure | Titahi Bay South 43% of titles | Titahi Bay North 35% of titles | Onepoto 22% of titles | Porirua City whole council |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Usual residents | 3,744 | 2,709 | 1,938 | 59,445 |
| Change since 2018 | +0.0% | +0.8% | +1.1% | +5.1% |
| Change since 2013 | +5.1% | +10.3% | +7.7% | +14.9% |
| Median age | 34.9 | 35.5 | 35.1 | 35.9 |
| Households | 1,275 | 999 | 633 | 19,020 |
| Own or part-own their home (including family trusts) | 53.4% | 58.3% | 75.4% | 66.9% |
| Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting) | 46.6% | 41.4% | 24.6% | 33.0% |
| Median household income | $98,500 | $96,500 | $118,500 | $124,000 |
| Median weekly rent, renting households | $269 | $400 | $470 | $400 |
| Dwellings unoccupied on census night | 5.4% | 7.7% | 3.6% | 5.5% |
| Ages | ||||
| Under 15 | 21.6% | 20.8% | 22.1% | 22.1% |
| 15 to 29 | 19.8% | 20.3% | 19.7% | 19.1% |
| 30 to 64 | 45.4% | 45.1% | 46.1% | 45.8% |
| 65 and over | 13.2% | 14.0% | 12.1% | 13.0% |
| Where people came from | ||||
| Born overseas | 17.2% | 17.5% | 17.7% | 26.1% |
| Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years | 16.2% | 17.4% | 7.9% | 13.4% |
| Lived elsewhere in New Zealand 5 years ago (of all residents, including children born since) | 36.1% | 40.2% | 31.5% | 37.2% |
| Lived overseas 5 years ago (of all residents) | 3.3% | 3.7% | 2.5% | 3.5% |
| Moved here in the last year (of all residents) | 14.4% | 18.2% | 11.8% | 14.7% |
| Work and study (people 15 and over) | ||||
| Bachelor degree or higher | 23.0% | 26.2% | 24.5% | 27.2% |
| Employed full-time | 52.8% | 52.6% | 57.9% | 54.8% |
| Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate) | 3.8% | 4.5% | 3.0% | 3.6% |
| Managers and professionals (of those employed) | 44.5% | 47.4% | 44.2% | 48.2% |
| Median personal income | $42,800 | $42,900 | $49,500 | $47,200 |
| Getting to work (of those employed) | ||||
| Work from home | 13.5% | 15.8% | 15.2% | 18.3% |
| Car, truck or van | 69.5% | 68.4% | 70.4% | 65.8% |
| Bus, train or ferry | 13.5% | 12.3% | 12.1% | 13.0% |
| Walk or cycle | 2.4% | 2.4% | 1.4% | 2.0% |
| Households and families | ||||
| One-person households | 23.8% | 26.4% | 16.7% | 16.6% |
| Average people per household | 2.8 | 2.7 | 3 | 3 |
| Households with no motor vehicle | 11.4% | 9.1% | 4.6% | 6.0% |
| Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms) | 10.1% | 8.8% | 8.3% | 8.9% |
| Couples with children (of families) | 39.9% | 38.6% | 45.1% | 46.1% |
| Couples without children | 31.0% | 35.6% | 33.1% | 32.9% |
| One-parent families | 28.8% | 25.3% | 21.1% | 21.0% |
| Homes | ||||
| Separate (stand-alone) houses | 85.0% | 71.6% | 95.3% | 82.7% |
| Average bedrooms | 2.8 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 3.2 |
| Heated with a heat pump | 68.9% | 65.9% | 59.5% | 66.1% |
| Damp, always or sometimes | 28.9% | 25.9% | 27.1% | 22.7% |
| Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes | 22.4% | 18.1% | 19.4% | 18.0% |
Rents around Tītahi Bay
New tenancies in Titahi Bay South in the April–June 2026 quarter had a median rent of $535 a week (down 9.3% on a year earlier). That is below the typical suburb in Porirua City ($670), and slightly below the national median ($600); the lowest of 5 in Porirua City.
| April–June 2026 | Titahi Bay South 43% of titles | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|
| Median weekly rent, new tenancies | $535 | $600 |
| Middle half of rents | $161–$596 | $490–$700 |
| Change in median on a year earlier | −9.3% | +0.2% |
| Bonds lodged in the quarter | 18 | 40,827 |
Schools and hospitals near Tītahi Bay
LINZ maps 5 school sites inside Tītahi Bay, among them Ngati Toa School (Contributing) and St Pius X School (Titahi Bay) (Contributing).
- Ngati Toa School (Contributing)
- St Pius X School (Titahi Bay) (Contributing)
- Titahi Bay Intermediate (Intermediate)
- Titahi Bay North School (Full Primary)
- Titahi Bay School (Contributing)
- Nearest school: Titahi Bay North School (0.6 km)
- Nearest secondary school: Aotea College (2.4 km)
- Nearest public general hospital: Kenepuru Hospital (4.8 km)
School enrolment zones in Tītahi Bay: a guide
Three secondary schools have a home zone covering most of Tītahi Bay's titles: Hutt International Boys School, Mana College and St Oran's College.
- Titahi Bay School (primary, Years 1–6): about 60% of titles
- Hutt International Boys School (secondary): all or nearly all titles
- Mana College (secondary): all or nearly all titles
- St Oran's 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
Public transport in Tītahi Bay
100% of Tītahi Bay's titles are within 400 m of a stop with a scheduled weekday service, above Porirua City as a whole (75%).
Fewer than 1% are within 400 m of a stop with 60 or more departures that day.
The typical title is 127 m in a straight line from its nearest stop.
Timetable of Wednesday 30 September 2026, Metlink (Greater Wellington Regional Council). Sources and limits
Places of worship near Tītahi Bay
OpenStreetMap maps 5 places of worship inside Tītahi Bay (5 Christian).
Nearest mapped place of each tradition within 10 km:
- Christian: St. Matthew's Anglican Church, under 1 km away
- Muslim: Porirua Mosque, 4.6 km away
Listed as facilities for access; not an indicator of who lives here. Sources and limits
Other suburbs in Porirua City with many cross-leases
- Whitby: 143 cross-lease titles (3.1%)
- Rānui: 134 cross-lease titles (10.5%)
- Camborne: 81 cross-lease titles (11.8%)
- Paremata: 79 cross-lease titles (7.0%)
- Papakōwhai: 66 cross-lease titles (8.1%)
- Plimmerton: 62 cross-lease titles (5.4%)
- Takapūwāhia: 58 cross-lease titles (11.7%)
- Pukerua Bay: 38 cross-lease titles (4.6%)
Suburbs like Tītahi Bay
The closest match on the measures on this site is Takapūwāhia in Porirua City, nearest on distance to the coast, home ownership, unit-title share. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Takapūwāhia | Porirua City | 11.7% | No data | 33.2 | distance to the coast, home ownership, unit-title share |
| Naenae | Lower Hutt City | 9.6% | $570 | 34.5 | unit-title share, land per flat, median age |
| Stokes Valley | Lower Hutt City | 12.5% | $620 | 36.6 | commuting on foot or by bike, degrees, working from home |
| Taitā | Lower Hutt City | 9.4% | $560 | 33.7 | near a stop, land per flat, unit-title share |
| Rānui, Porirua City | Porirua City | 10.5% | No data | 32.5 | population change, distance to the coast, unit-title share |
Questions
What is the rent in Tītahi Bay?
New tenancies in Titahi Bay South (the rent area for part of Tītahi Bay) had a median rent of $535 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter (MBIE bond data, all dwelling types). These are rents agreed for new tenancies, not asking rents. The middle half of those rents ran from $161 to $596.
What schools are in Tītahi Bay?
LINZ maps 5 school sites inside Tītahi Bay, including Ngati Toa School, St Pius X School (Titahi Bay) and Titahi Bay Intermediate. The nearest secondary school to its centre is Aotea College (2.4 km in a straight line). Secondary-school home zones covering most of its titles are Hutt International Boys School, Mana College and St Oran's College; check the school's own zone map for any address.