Suburbs in Taupo District: rents, census and property titles

LINZ recorded 28,113 live titles in Taupo District on 30 September 2026: 73% freehold, then cross-lease at 11.8%. Its 3,307 cross-lease titles (11.8%) are above the national share of 8.7% (in the highest quarter of 54 in New Zealand, among councils with at least 100 cross-lease titles).

Taupo District cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles: 3,307
Share of live titles: 11.8%
Live titles in total: 28,113
New Zealand share: 8.7%
Suburbs with 30+ cross-lease titles: 11

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

Title mix in Taupo District

Title type	Live titles	Share
Freehold	20,415	72.6%
Cross lease	3,307	11.8%
Unit title	1,298	4.6%
Leasehold	570	2.0%
Other record types	2,523	9.0%
Total	28,113	100%

Counts are titles, not homes. Sources and limits

How cross-leases in Taupo District are set up

Fewer schemes have four or more flats on one section (5%, against 11% nationally), up to 28.

Carports appear in fewer leases (6% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

Separate exclusive-use areas are more common (10% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

Scheme structure	Taupo District	New Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)	1,564	87,651
Two-flat schemes	87.9%	76.2%
Three-flat schemes	7.0%	12.2%
Four or more flats	4.7%	11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)	1,012 m²	908 m²
Typical land per flat	506 m²	408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease	24.6%	28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease	5.9%	13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area	9.8%	4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)	56.0%	35.6%
Median year of earliest current title	1991	1988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more	1,346	54,978

Sources and limits

Among suburbs with at least 300 live and 30 cross-lease titles, the highest cross-lease shares in Taupo District are in Taupō (27.7%), Hilltop (24.8%), Tauhara (24.0%), Nukuhau (20.2%), Waipahihi (17.4%).

Suburbs in Taupo District by cross-lease share

Suburb	Cross-lease titles	Live titles	Share
Taupō	1,504	5,429	27.7%
Hilltop	370	1,491	24.8%
Tauhara	299	1,246	24.0%
Nukuhau	410	2,026	20.2%
Waipahihi	153	878	17.4%
Rainbow Point	62	358	17.3%
Two Mile Bay	73	424	17.2%
Richmond Heights	75	1,085	6.9%
Acacia Bay	78	1,463	5.3%
Tūrangi	124	3,177	3.9%
Wharewaka	66	1,702	3.9%

Taupo District at a glance

12% of titles in Taupo District's suburbs were first issued since 2020, close to New Zealand (12%). The wider district is about as wet as the national average for homes (970 mm of rain a year, against 1,000 mm) and cooler than it (11.4°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	Typical distance to the coast
Taupō	27.7%	$650	5.0%	45.5	64.2%	2.2°	100.5 km
Hilltop	24.8%	$650	12.1%	46	66.8%	3°	99 km
Tauhara	24.0%	No data	17.3%	32.6	53.8%	1.6°	99.4 km
Nukuhau	20.2%	$710	8.0%	50.1	71.8%	2°	102.9 km
Waipahihi	17.4%	$660	2.7%	47.2	61.8%	3.6°	98.5 km
Rainbow Point	17.3%	$650	5.3%	37.7	63.3%	1.6°	99 km
Two Mile Bay	17.2%	$650	7.8%	37.7	63.3%	2.5°	98.7 km
Richmond Heights	6.9%	$650	12.0%	37.7	63.3%	2.6°	98.1 km
Acacia Bay	5.3%	$725	12.5%	52.5	67.7%	3.9°	103.7 km
Tūrangi	3.9%	$495	4.0%	39.4	48.7%	1°	103.3 km
Wharewaka	3.9%	$770	54.9%	52.2	76.2%	1°	98.6 km

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New titles by year in Taupo District

2025 brought 438 titles still live, about the same as the 5-year average before it (423), against a peak of 588 in 2022.

Year issued	All new titles	Freehold	Unit titles	Cross-lease	Leasehold	Other
2020	378	240	81	10	42	5
2021	401	324	54	10	11	2
2022	588	541	25	5	16	1
2023	411	351	45	11	2	2
2024	337	318	6	10	2	1
2025	438	288	58	16	75	1
2026 (Jan–Sep)	463	368	74	7	10	4

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Cross-lease titles in Taupo District, by suburb

Unit titles in Taupo District, by suburb

Leasehold titles in Taupo District, by suburb

Taupo District at the 2023 Census

Measure	Taupo District 2023 Census
Usual residents	40,296
Change since 2018	+8.3%
Change since 2013	+22.5%
Median age	42.3
Households	14,799
Own or part-own their home (including family trusts)	70.4%
Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting)	29.6%
Median household income	$86,700
Median weekly rent, renting households	$385
Dwellings unoccupied on census night	30.6%
Ages
Under 15	18.7%
15 to 29	15.9%
30 to 64	44.8%
65 and over	20.6%
Where people came from
Born overseas	18.0%
Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years	20.3%
Lived elsewhere in New Zealand 5 years ago (of all residents, including children born since)	48.7%
Lived overseas 5 years ago (of all residents)	3.7%
Moved here in the last year (of all residents)	18.8%
Work and study (people 15 and over)
Bachelor degree or higher	17.9%
Employed full-time	49.6%
Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate)	2.4%
Managers and professionals (of those employed)	39.2%
Median personal income	$39,800
Getting to work (of those employed)
Work from home	19.2%
Car, truck or van	74.4%
Bus, train or ferry	0.1%
Walk or cycle	4.5%
Households and families
One-person households	25.1%
Average people per household	2.5
Households with no motor vehicle	3.8%
Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms)	5.0%
Couples with children (of families)	35.8%
Couples without children	48.6%
One-parent families	15.5%
Homes
Separate (stand-alone) houses	87.5%
Average bedrooms	3.1
Heated with a heat pump	59.5%
Damp, always or sometimes	14.6%
Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes	10.5%

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