Suburbs in Wellington City: rents, census and property titles

LINZ recorded 88,030 live titles in Wellington City on 30 September 2026: 66% freehold, then unit title at 24.6%. Its 4,891 cross-lease titles (5.6%) are well below the national share of 8.7%.

Wellington City cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles: 4,891
Share of live titles: 5.6%
Live titles in total: 88,030
New Zealand share: 8.7%
Suburbs with 30+ cross-lease titles: 32

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

Title mix in Wellington City

Title type	Live titles	Share
Freehold	58,014	65.9%
Cross lease	4,891	5.6%
Unit title	21,651	24.6%
Leasehold	1,348	1.5%
Other record types	2,126	2.4%
Total	88,030	100%

Counts are titles, not homes. Sources and limits

How cross-leases in Wellington City are set up

Three-flat schemes are less common here (7%, against 12% nationally).

Carports appear in fewer leases (8% of schemes, against 13% nationally).

Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (23%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.

Scheme structure	Wellington City	New Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)	2,130	87,651
Two-flat schemes	82.4%	76.2%
Three-flat schemes	6.7%	12.2%
Four or more flats	10.4%	11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)	759 m²	908 m²
Typical land per flat	350 m²	408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease	18.0%	28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease	8.1%	13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area	4.3%	4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)	22.5%	35.6%
Median year of earliest current title	1987	1988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more	991	54,978

Sources and limits

Among suburbs with at least 300 live and 30 cross-lease titles, the highest cross-lease shares in Wellington City are in Woodridge (25.4%), Broadmeadows (19.1%), Kingston (14.5%), Johnsonville (13.1%), Maupuia (12.4%).

Suburbs in Wellington City by cross-lease share

Suburb	Cross-lease titles	Live titles	Share
Woodridge	186	733	25.4%
Broadmeadows	129	676	19.1%
Kingston	73	504	14.5%
Johnsonville	616	4,707	13.1%
Maupuia	78	630	12.4%
Lyall Bay	166	1,415	11.7%
Newlands	328	3,131	10.5%
Southgate	42	433	9.7%
Churton Park	271	2,953	9.2%
Miramar	335	3,787	8.8%
Crofton Downs	73	839	8.7%
Vogeltown	31	371	8.4%
Karori	469	5,915	7.9%
Ngaio	164	2,338	7.0%
Tawa	380	5,584	6.8%
Khandallah	230	3,483	6.6%
Brooklyn	149	2,665	5.6%
Hataitai	131	2,350	5.6%
Paparangi	56	1,018	5.5%
Strathmore Park	69	1,267	5.4%
Grenada Village	39	722	5.4%
Wilton	47	887	5.3%
Wadestown	73	1,456	5.0%
Island Bay	150	3,044	4.9%
Seatoun	49	1,081	4.5%
Kelburn	61	1,440	4.2%
Kilbirnie	56	1,635	3.4%
Newtown	95	2,817	3.4%
Northland	40	1,367	2.9%
Mount Victoria	44	2,205	2.0%
Thorndon	37	2,215	1.7%
Mount Cook	31	2,618	1.2%

Wellington City at a glance

8% of titles in Wellington City's suburbs were first issued since 2020, well below New Zealand (12%). 96% of titles are within 400 m of a public transport stop with a scheduled weekday service, and 69% within 400 m of a frequent one. 46% of titles are within 1 km of the sea or harbour edge. The wider district is a little drier than the national average for homes (870 mm of rain a year, against 1,000 mm) and close to it (13.0°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	Titles within 400 m of a public transport stop	Typical distance to the coast
Woodridge	25.4%	$690	10.8%	36.4	71.0%	4.6°	98.2%	1.7 km
Broadmeadows	19.1%	$710	4.4%	36.9	63.8%	10.6°	99.6%	2.2 km
Kingston	14.5%	$540	No data	35.9	63.3%	11.4°	94.6%	2.3 km
Johnsonville	13.1%	$685	7.9%	37	65.3%	8°	98.9%	2.8 km
Maupuia	12.4%	No data	3.5%	38.5	67.0%	8°	97.9%	0.2 km
Lyall Bay	11.7%	$680	8.0%	36.6	53.7%	1.7°	99.8%	0.3 km
Newlands	10.5%	$603	6.2%	35.3	67.2%	8.6°	90.8%	1.3 km
Southgate	9.7%	No data	6.2%	43.2	59.4%	9.9°	100.0%	0.6 km
Churton Park	9.2%	$880	7.1%	37.8	50.7%	5.6°	97.5%	4 km
Miramar	8.8%	$720	4.1%	38.9	60.0%	1.4°	100.0%	0.5 km
Crofton Downs	8.7%	$595	7.4%	40.5	75.8%	11.1°	64.5%	2.2 km
Vogeltown	8.4%	$540	4.9%	35.9	63.3%	15.3°	100.0%	2.3 km
Karori	7.9%	No data	4.9%	38.8	61.3%	8.1°	88.6%	3.6 km
Ngaio	7.0%	$625	3.0%	41.9	62.5%	11.2°	82.4%	1.9 km
Tawa	6.8%	$640	7.9%	39.5	63.9%	7.1°	97.0%	4.3 km
Khandallah	6.6%	$735	3.0%	41.6	53.1%	10°	90.8%	1.1 km
Brooklyn	5.6%	$663	7.5%	35.7	52.6%	11.7°	95.1%	2.5 km
Hataitai	5.6%	$585	2.4%	33.8	51.2%	11.6°	100.0%	0.3 km
Paparangi	5.5%	$650	5.7%	36.3	65.8%	8°	99.9%	2.4 km
Strathmore Park	5.4%	No data	4.5%	37.9	60.5%	8.6°	99.6%	0.6 km
Grenada Village	5.4%	No data	6.6%	37.1	63.1%	5°	92.1%	3.1 km
Wilton	5.3%	$480	2.4%	38.6	70.9%	14.5°	99.2%	2 km
Wadestown	5.0%	$620	1.8%	38	51.0%	16.3°	99.8%	1 km
Island Bay	4.9%	$723	9.5%	39.2	49.4%	8.8°	99.9%	0.7 km
Seatoun	4.5%	$835	4.7%	46.2	42.2%	3.6°	99.9%	0.2 km
Kelburn	4.2%	$645	4.1%	29.5	46.2%	15°	100.0%	1.2 km
Kilbirnie	3.4%	$540	7.5%	37.5	51.6%	1.7°	100.0%	0.6 km
Newtown	3.4%	$578	7.5%	29.1	55.0%	5.4°	98.8%	1.3 km
Northland	2.9%	$595	6.0%	32.5	61.5%	14.5°	100.0%	1.7 km
Mount Victoria	2.0%	$600	6.0%	32.7	42.3%	7.1°	100.0%	0.6 km
Thorndon	1.7%	$590	2.7%	34.2	25.7%	6.8°	98.2%	0.7 km
Mount Cook	1.2%	$350	11.9%	25.6	34.5%	7.9°	100.0%	1.5 km

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New titles by year in Wellington City

2025 brought 609 titles still live, fewer than the 5-year average before it (1,192), against a peak of 1,560 in 2023; 33% were unit titles.

Year issued	All new titles	Freehold	Unit titles	Cross-lease	Leasehold	Other
2020	1,124	542	529	8	14	31
2021	1,193	455	673	9	14	42
2022	1,212	547	592	5	36	32
2023	1,560	518	974	10	12	46
2024	873	394	418	10	22	29
2025	609	360	201	14	2	32
2026 (Jan–Sep)	341	209	95	12	9	16

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Cross-lease titles in Wellington City, by suburb

Unit titles in Wellington City, by suburb

Leasehold titles in Wellington City, by suburb

Wellington City at the 2023 Census

Measure	Wellington City 2023 Census
Usual residents	202,689
Change since 2018	−0.0%
Change since 2013	+6.1%
Median age	34.9
Households	77,004
Own or part-own their home (including family trusts)	58.6%
Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting)	41.4%
Median household income	$134,500
Median weekly rent, renting households	$560
Dwellings unoccupied on census night	7.8%
Ages
Under 15	14.4%
15 to 29	27.2%
30 to 64	46.8%
65 and over	11.7%
Where people came from
Born overseas	34.6%
Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years	23.2%
Lived elsewhere in New Zealand 5 years ago (of all residents, including children born since)	44.2%
Lived overseas 5 years ago (of all residents)	5.4%
Moved here in the last year (of all residents)	24.0%
Work and study (people 15 and over)
Bachelor degree or higher	48.6%
Employed full-time	59.0%
Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate)	3.0%
Managers and professionals (of those employed)	59.5%
Median personal income	$55,500
Getting to work (of those employed)
Work from home	18.7%
Car, truck or van	39.0%
Bus, train or ferry	20.0%
Walk or cycle	19.8%
Households and families
One-person households	24.1%
Average people per household	2.6
Households with no motor vehicle	15.2%
Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms)	5.0%
Couples with children (of families)	43.0%
Couples without children	44.8%
One-parent families	12.2%
Homes
Separate (stand-alone) houses	59.7%
Average bedrooms	2.8
Heated with a heat pump	53.6%
Damp, always or sometimes	22.9%
Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes	16.1%

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