Suburbs in Waitaki District: rents, census and property titles
LINZ recorded 17,217 live titles in Waitaki District on 30 September 2026: 96% freehold, then cross-lease at 2.2%. Its 381 cross-lease titles (2.2%) are well below the national share of 8.7%.
Waitaki District cross-lease titles
- Cross-lease titles
- 381
- Share of live titles
- 2.2%
- Live titles in total
- 17,217
- New Zealand share
- 8.7%
- Suburbs with 30+ cross-lease titles
- 3
Title mix in Waitaki District
| Title type | Live titles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 16,511 | 95.9% |
| Cross lease | 381 | 2.2% |
| Unit title | 104 | 0.6% |
| Leasehold | 135 | 0.8% |
| Other record types | 86 | 0.5% |
| Total | 17,217 | 100% |
Counts are titles, not homes. Sources and limits
How cross-leases in Waitaki District are set up
Three-flat schemes are more common here (34%, against 12% nationally).
More schemes have four or more flats on one section (18%, against 11% nationally), up to 13.
Carports appear in fewer leases (8% of schemes, against 13% nationally).
| Scheme structure | Waitaki District | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|
| Cross-lease schemes (shared sections) | 143 | 87,651 |
| Two-flat schemes | 48.3% | 76.2% |
| Three-flat schemes | 33.6% | 12.2% |
| Four or more flats | 18.2% | 11.4% |
| Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey) | 989 m² | 908 m² |
| Typical land per flat | 337 m² | 408 m² |
| Schemes with a garage written into a lease | 39.2% | 28.4% |
| Schemes with a carport in a lease | 8.4% | 13.3% |
| Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area | 7.0% | 4.5% |
| Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem) | 30.1% | 35.6% |
| Median year of earliest current title | 1983 | 1988 |
| Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more | 31 | 54,978 |
Suburbs in Waitaki District by cross-lease share
| Suburb | Cross-lease titles | Live titles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oamaru | 118 | 1,842 | 6.4% |
| Oamaru North | 147 | 2,610 | 5.6% |
| South Hill | 63 | 1,485 | 4.2% |
Waitaki District at a glance
7% of titles in Waitaki District's suburbs were first issued since 2020, well below New Zealand (12%). 36% of titles are within 1 km of the sea or harbour edge. The wider district is drier than the national average for homes (680 mm of rain a year, against 1,000 mm) and cooler than it (10.0°C, against 13.5°C), on NASA POWER's ~50 km grid.
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oamaru | 6.4% | $495 | 2.8% | 44.3 | 70.2% | 2.6° | 0.6 km |
| Oamaru North | 5.6% | $455 | 4.6% | 39.9 | 68.2% | 1° | 1 km |
| South Hill | 4.2% | $465 | 4.8% | 47 | 73.9% | 5° | 0.7 km |
New titles by year in Waitaki District
2025 brought 163 titles still live, fewer than the 5-year average before it (181), against a peak of 214 in 2024.
| Year issued | All new titles | Freehold | Unit titles | Cross-lease | Leasehold | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 147 | 134 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2021 | 149 | 145 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2022 | 192 | 168 | 9 | 1 | 11 | 3 |
| 2023 | 205 | 197 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
| 2024 | 214 | 204 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| 2025 | 163 | 154 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | 151 | 149 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Waitaki District at the 2023 Census
| Measure | Waitaki District 2023 Census |
|---|---|
| Usual residents | 23,472 |
| Change since 2018 | +5.2% |
| Change since 2013 | +12.7% |
| Median age | 46.1 |
| Households | 9,702 |
| Own or part-own their home (including family trusts) | 73.6% |
| Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting) | 26.4% |
| Median household income | $68,900 |
| Median weekly rent, renting households | $296 |
| Dwellings unoccupied on census night | 18.0% |
| Ages | |
| Under 15 | 17.2% |
| 15 to 29 | 14.9% |
| 30 to 64 | 44.0% |
| 65 and over | 23.9% |
| Where people came from | |
| Born overseas | 18.7% |
| Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years | 26.4% |
| Lived elsewhere in New Zealand 5 years ago (of all residents, including children born since) | 44.4% |
| Lived overseas 5 years ago (of all residents) | 3.4% |
| Moved here in the last year (of all residents) | 17.9% |
| Work and study (people 15 and over) | |
| Bachelor degree or higher | 15.7% |
| Employed full-time | 47.4% |
| Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate) | 1.7% |
| Managers and professionals (of those employed) | 36.8% |
| Median personal income | $34,900 |
| Getting to work (of those employed) | |
| Work from home | 19.8% |
| Car, truck or van | 71.3% |
| Bus, train or ferry | 0.3% |
| Walk or cycle | 6.3% |
| Households and families | |
| One-person households | 31.0% |
| Average people per household | 2.3 |
| Households with no motor vehicle | 5.7% |
| Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms) | 3.1% |
| Couples with children (of families) | 35.3% |
| Couples without children | 52.5% |
| One-parent families | 12.2% |
| Homes | |
| Separate (stand-alone) houses | 90.1% |
| Average bedrooms | 3 |
| Heated with a heat pump | 62.2% |
| Damp, always or sometimes | 15.1% |
| Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes | 10.1% |