Suburbs in Waipa District: census and property titles
LINZ recorded 25,046 live titles in Waipa District on 30 September 2026: 89% freehold, then cross-lease at 6.9%. Its 1,730 cross-lease titles (6.9%) are below the national share of 8.7%.
Waipa District cross-lease titles
- Cross-lease titles
- 1,730
- Share of live titles
- 6.9%
- Live titles in total
- 25,046
- New Zealand share
- 8.7%
- Suburbs with 30+ cross-lease titles
- 3
Title mix in Waipa District
| Title type | Live titles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 22,281 | 89.0% |
| Cross lease | 1,730 | 6.9% |
| Unit title | 641 | 2.6% |
| Leasehold | 242 | 1.0% |
| Other record types | 152 | 0.6% |
| Total | 25,046 | 100% |
Counts are titles, not homes. Sources and limits
How cross-leases in Waipa District are set up
Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (19%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.
Carports appear in fewer leases (7% of schemes, against 13% nationally).
Fewer leases include a garage (21% of schemes, against 28% nationally).
| Scheme structure | Waipa District | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|
| Cross-lease schemes (shared sections) | 784 | 87,651 |
| Two-flat schemes | 82.3% | 76.2% |
| Three-flat schemes | 8.8% | 12.2% |
| Four or more flats | 8.7% | 11.4% |
| Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey) | 1,004 m² | 908 m² |
| Typical land per flat | 450 m² | 408 m² |
| Schemes with a garage written into a lease | 20.5% | 28.4% |
| Schemes with a carport in a lease | 7.4% | 13.3% |
| Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area | 5.7% | 4.5% |
| Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem) | 18.6% | 35.6% |
| Median year of earliest current title | 1989 | 1988 |
| Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more | 595 | 54,978 |
Suburbs in Waipa District by cross-lease share
| Suburb | Cross-lease titles | Live titles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leamington | 438 | 4,118 | 10.6% |
| Te Awamutu | 724 | 7,269 | 10.0% |
| Cambridge | 535 | 6,634 | 8.1% |
Waipa District at a glance
16% of titles in Waipa 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 (1,080 mm of rain a year, against 1,000 mm) and close to it (13.4°C, against 13.5°C), on NASA POWER's ~50 km grid.
| Suburb | Cross-lease share of titles | Titles first issued since 2020 | Median age | Homes with a heat pump | Median slope under buildings | Typical distance to the coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leamington | 10.6% | 11.6% | 34.9 | 79.9% | 0.9° | 45.7 km |
| Te Awamutu | 10.0% | 12.8% | 39 | 85.3% | 2° | 36.5 km |
| Cambridge | 8.1% | 19.1% | 45.8 | 79.9% | 0.7° | 44.8 km |
New titles by year in Waipa District
2025 brought 579 titles still live, about the same as the 5-year average before it (616), against a peak of 816 in 2023.
| Year issued | All new titles | Freehold | Unit titles | Cross-lease | Leasehold | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 545 | 477 | 55 | 7 | 1 | 5 |
| 2021 | 553 | 528 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| 2022 | 649 | 595 | 44 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2023 | 816 | 746 | 51 | 7 | 5 | 7 |
| 2024 | 515 | 443 | 39 | 7 | 21 | 5 |
| 2025 | 579 | 520 | 35 | 2 | 14 | 8 |
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | 412 | 394 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
Unit titles in Waipa District, by suburb
Leasehold titles in Waipa District, by suburb
Waipa District at the 2023 Census
| Measure | Waipa District 2023 Census |
|---|---|
| Usual residents | 58,686 |
| Change since 2018 | +10.2% |
| Change since 2013 | +25.8% |
| Median age | 40.9 |
| Households | 21,612 |
| Own or part-own their home (including family trusts) | 74.0% |
| Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting) | 26.0% |
| Median household income | $102,900 |
| Median weekly rent, renting households | $450 |
| Dwellings unoccupied on census night | 6.3% |
| Ages | |
| Under 15 | 20.0% |
| 15 to 29 | 16.4% |
| 30 to 64 | 44.1% |
| 65 and over | 19.4% |
| Where people came from | |
| Born overseas | 20.0% |
| Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years | 18.8% |
| 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) | 3.3% |
| Moved here in the last year (of all residents) | 17.3% |
| Work and study (people 15 and over) | |
| Bachelor degree or higher | 23.2% |
| Employed full-time | 52.3% |
| Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate) | 1.9% |
| Managers and professionals (of those employed) | 46.7% |
| Median personal income | $45,200 |
| Getting to work (of those employed) | |
| Work from home | 20.4% |
| Car, truck or van | 74.4% |
| Bus, train or ferry | 0.5% |
| Walk or cycle | 3.2% |
| Households and families | |
| One-person households | 21.5% |
| Average people per household | 2.6 |
| Households with no motor vehicle | 3.3% |
| Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms) | 3.2% |
| Couples with children (of families) | 42.7% |
| Couples without children | 43.8% |
| One-parent families | 13.4% |
| Homes | |
| Separate (stand-alone) houses | 87.1% |
| Average bedrooms | 3.3 |
| Heated with a heat pump | 76.2% |
| Damp, always or sometimes | 13.7% |
| Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes | 10.1% |