Living in Whitby: rents, schools, census and property titles
The 4,550 live property titles in Whitby, Porirua City are almost all freehold (96%), as recorded by LINZ on 30 September 2026. Cross-lease titles number 143 (3.1%), well below the national share of 8.7%.
- Cross-lease titles
- 143
- Share of live titles
- 3.1%
- Live titles in total
- 4,550
- Porirua City share
- 4.2%
- New Zealand share
- 8.7%
- Rank by share in Porirua City
- 9 of 9
- Rank by share in New Zealand
- joint 580 of 644
Whitby at a glance
Where Whitby differs most from suburbs across New Zealand: median weekly rent, new tenancies (higher than 94% of NZ suburbs); cross-lease share of titles (lower than 90% of NZ suburbs).
Higher or lower is not better or worse. Sources and limits
Start here
What the data tells you
Recorded facts
- Whitby is listed under Porirua City.
- 4,550 live titles are recorded here, including 143 cross-lease titles (3.1%).
- 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 3.1% of the recorded title mix. That describes the suburb, not any particular home.
- Unit titles account for 0.7% 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 Whitby
| Title type | Live titles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 4,354 | 95.7% |
| Cross lease | 143 | 3.1% |
| Unit title | 33 | 0.7% |
| Leasehold | 3 | 0.1% |
| Other record types | 17 | 0.4% |
| Total | 4,550 | 100% |
Counts are titles, not homes; the register can lag conversions, so check the certificate of title. Sources and limits
How Whitby compares
Nationally, 8.7% of live titles are cross-lease; Whitby is well below the national share (8.7%).
Across Porirua City as a whole, the share is 4.2%; Whitby is lower than the overall Porirua City share (4.2%).
Its cross-lease share is the lowest of 9 in Porirua City (among suburbs with an indexed page on this site).
How cross-leases in Whitby are set up
Three-flat schemes are less common here (3%, against 12% nationally).
Fewer leases include a garage (12% of schemes, against 28% nationally).
Carports appear in more leases (30% of schemes, against 13% nationally).
| Scheme structure | Whitby | Porirua City | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-lease schemes (shared sections) | 61 | 358 | 87,651 |
| Two-flat schemes | 85.2% | 74.0% | 76.2% |
| Three-flat schemes | 3.3% | 9.8% | 12.2% |
| Four or more flats | 9.8% | 15.6% | 11.4% |
| Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey) | 963 m² | 916 m² | 908 m² |
| Typical land per flat | 438 m² | 404 m² | 408 m² |
| Schemes with a garage written into a lease | 11.5% | 15.9% | 28.4% |
| Schemes with a carport in a lease | 29.5% | 12.3% | 13.3% |
| Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area | 8.2% | 5.0% | 4.5% |
| Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem) | 21.3% | 25.4% | 35.6% |
| Median year of earliest current title | 1980 | 1987 | 1988 |
| Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more | 40 | 206 | 54,978 |
Unit titles and leasehold in Whitby
Unit titles are 1% of Whitby's titles, well below Porirua City (3%) and well below New Zealand (8%). They belong to 6 developments, each run by a body corporate; half have 2 units or fewer.
New titles in Whitby since 2020
688 of Whitby's current titles (15%) were first issued since 2020, above Porirua City's suburbs with new-title figures taken together (11%) and above New Zealand (12%).
That rate is the highest of 9 in Porirua City.
| Title type | Since 2020 | Since 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 681 | 297 |
| Unit title | 2 | 0 |
| Cross-lease | 1 | 0 |
| Leasehold | 3 | 0 |
| Other | 1 | 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 Whitby
The typical building in Whitby stands on ground sloping 6.4° (read on an 8 m grid, so short steep banks may be understated).
The land rises from about 0 m to 216 m, and 43% 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 Whitby
8% of Whitby's titles are within 200 m of the sea or harbour edge, 25% within 500 m and 56% within 1 km. The typical title is 910 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 Whitby: 2023 Census
Whitby's titles fall in 6 census areas (Stats NZ statistical areas). The 4 shown below hold 99% of its titles; their figures are shown side by side and are not added together.
Fewer households have no car in Endeavour West than across Porirua City: 1.0% against 6.0%.
Fewer people live alone in Endeavour West than across Porirua City: 9.8% against 16.6%.
More adults hold a degree in Endeavour West than across Porirua City: 42.4% against 27.2%.
| Measure | Endeavour West 28% of titles | Postgate 27% of titles | Endeavour East 23% of titles | Whitby 22% of titles | Porirua City whole council |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Usual residents | 2,790 | 3,111 | 2,994 | 2,904 | 59,445 |
| Change since 2018 | +63.7% | +5.6% | +2.8% | +2.0% | +5.1% |
| Change since 2013 | +150.7% | +16.8% | +28.9% | +5.8% | +14.9% |
| Median age | 37.2 | 34.1 | 41.3 | 41.5 | 35.9 |
| Households | 897 | 1,050 | 975 | 1,044 | 19,020 |
| Own or part-own their home (including family trusts) | 84.3% | 75.1% | 88.6% | 87.1% | 66.9% |
| Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting) | 15.7% | 24.9% | 11.1% | 12.9% | 33.0% |
| Median household income | $174,800 | $140,000 | $180,400 | $134,000 | $124,000 |
| Median weekly rent, renting households | $750 | $650 | $750 | $650 | $400 |
| Dwellings unoccupied on census night | 4.9% | 3.8% | 3.0% | 3.9% | 5.5% |
| Ages | |||||
| Under 15 | 24.0% | 21.9% | 21.2% | 20.2% | 22.1% |
| 15 to 29 | 13.9% | 18.9% | 15.8% | 16.0% | 19.1% |
| 30 to 64 | 50.4% | 48.9% | 50.0% | 45.6% | 45.8% |
| 65 and over | 11.7% | 10.2% | 12.8% | 18.2% | 13.0% |
| Where people came from | |||||
| Born overseas | 32.0% | 25.7% | 27.7% | 28.0% | 26.1% |
| Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years | 18.8% | 17.0% | 12.0% | 8.6% | 13.4% |
| Lived elsewhere in New Zealand 5 years ago (of all residents, including children born since) | 53.9% | 38.4% | 33.2% | 33.5% | 37.2% |
| Lived overseas 5 years ago (of all residents) | 3.9% | 3.7% | 2.9% | 2.1% | 3.5% |
| Moved here in the last year (of all residents) | 19.8% | 16.9% | 11.8% | 11.2% | 14.7% |
| Work and study (people 15 and over) | |||||
| Bachelor degree or higher | 42.4% | 30.8% | 36.2% | 32.5% | 27.2% |
| Employed full-time | 64.8% | 64.6% | 59.5% | 57.4% | 54.8% |
| Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate) | 1.4% | 2.0% | 2.2% | 2.1% | 3.6% |
| Managers and professionals (of those employed) | 62.5% | 52.1% | 59.5% | 52.5% | 48.2% |
| Median personal income | $71,300 | $57,900 | $66,800 | $56,400 | $47,200 |
| Getting to work (of those employed) | |||||
| Work from home | 26.2% | 18.3% | 25.5% | 20.6% | 18.3% |
| Car, truck or van | 57.2% | 66.8% | 60.9% | 63.7% | 65.8% |
| Bus, train or ferry | 14.1% | 13.5% | 12.2% | 13.1% | 13.0% |
| Walk or cycle | 1.5% | 0.5% | 0.7% | 1.7% | 2.0% |
| Households and families | |||||
| One-person households | 9.8% | 13.1% | 9.0% | 20.1% | 16.6% |
| Average people per household | 3 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 2.8 | 3 |
| Households with no motor vehicle | 1.0% | 1.2% | 0.9% | 3.3% | 6.0% |
| Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms) | 1.0% | 4.3% | 1.2% | 2.0% | 8.9% |
| Couples with children (of families) | 59.1% | 46.9% | 56.0% | 49.8% | 46.1% |
| Couples without children | 33.8% | 37.3% | 37.0% | 38.3% | 32.9% |
| One-parent families | 7.4% | 15.8% | 7.0% | 11.6% | 21.0% |
| Homes | |||||
| Separate (stand-alone) houses | 89.3% | 88.6% | 92.9% | 81.9% | 82.7% |
| Average bedrooms | 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 3.2 |
| Heated with a heat pump | 65.6% | 71.6% | 61.1% | 59.2% | 66.1% |
| Damp, always or sometimes | 4.5% | 19.1% | 6.0% | 14.1% | 22.7% |
| Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes | 3.8% | 12.9% | 4.1% | 12.0% | 18.0% |
Rents around Whitby
New tenancies in Endeavour in the April–June 2026 quarter had a median rent of $795 a week (up 0.0% on a year earlier). That is slightly above the typical suburb in Porirua City ($670), and above the national median ($600); the highest of 5 in Porirua City.
| April–June 2026 | Endeavour 51% of titles | Postgate 27% of titles | Whitby 22% of titles | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median weekly rent, new tenancies | $795 | $680 | $720 | $600 |
| Middle half of rents | $750–$810 | $645–$750 | $640–$740 | $490–$700 |
| Change in median on a year earlier | +0.0% | −4.2% | +2.9% | +0.2% |
| Bonds lodged in the quarter | 15 | 21 | 12 | 40,827 |
Schools and hospitals near Whitby
LINZ maps 5 school sites inside Whitby, among them Adventure School (Full Primary) and Discovery School (Full Primary).
- Adventure School (Full Primary)
- Discovery School (Full Primary)
- Porirua Montessori Primary School (Full Primary)
- Postgate School (Full Primary)
- Whitby Collegiate (Secondary (Year 7-15))
- Nearest school: Adventure School (0.5 km)
- Nearest secondary school: Whitby Collegiate (0.8 km)
- Nearest public general hospital: Kenepuru Hospital (5.8 km)
School enrolment zones in Whitby: a guide
Three secondary schools have a home zone covering most of Whitby's titles: Aotea College, Hutt International Boys School and St Oran's College.
- Adventure School (primary, Years 1–8): about 55% of titles
- Discovery School (primary, Years 1–8): about 40% of titles
- Postgate School (primary, Years 1–8): about 20% of titles
- Pauatahanui School (primary, Years 1–8): about 15% of titles
- Aotea College (secondary): all or nearly all titles
- Hutt International Boys School (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 Whitby
79% of Whitby's titles are within 400 m of a stop with a scheduled weekday service, close to Porirua City as a whole (75%).
2% are that close to a frequent stop (60 or more departures that day), well below the council (13%).
The typical title is 200 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 Whitby
OpenStreetMap maps 3 places of worship inside Whitby (3 Christian).
Nearest mapped place of each tradition within 10 km:
- Christian: North Porirua Baptist Church, under 1 km away
- Hindu: BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, 8.5 km away
- Muslim: Porirua Mosque, 2.2 km away
- Sikh: Wellington Gurudwara Sahib, 9.6 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
- Tītahi Bay: 223 cross-lease titles (7.3%)
- 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 Whitby
The closest match on the measures on this site is Churton Park in Wellington City, nearest on commuting by public transport, commuting on foot or by bike, distance to a hospital. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Churton Park | Wellington City | 9.2% | $880 | 37.8 | commuting by public transport, commuting on foot or by bike, distance to a hospital |
| Grenada Village | Wellington City | 5.4% | No data | 37.1 | unit-title share, median age, distance to a hospital |
| Papakōwhai | Porirua City | 8.1% | No data | 40 | home ownership, unit-title share, distance to the coast |
| Swanson | Auckland | 2.3% | No data | 33.3 | distance to a hospital, commuting on foot or by bike, population change |
| Pukekohe | Auckland | 7.5% | No data | No data | near a stop, land per flat, elevation |
Questions
What is the rent in Whitby?
New tenancies in Endeavour (the rent area for part of Whitby) had a median rent of $795 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 $750 to $810.
What schools are in Whitby?
LINZ maps 5 school sites inside Whitby, including Adventure School, Discovery School and Porirua Montessori Primary School. The nearest secondary school to its centre is Whitby Collegiate (0.8 km in a straight line). Secondary-school home zones covering most of its titles are Aotea College, Hutt International Boys School and St Oran's College; check the school's own zone map for any address.