Living in Churton Park: rents, schools, census and property titles
The 2,953 live property titles in Churton Park, Wellington City are almost all freehold (86%), as recorded by LINZ on 30 September 2026. Cross-lease titles number 271 (9.2%), close to the national share of 8.7%.
Churton Park cross-lease titles
- Cross-lease titles
- 271
- Share of live titles
- 9.2%
- Live titles in total
- 2,953
- Wellington City share
- 5.6%
- New Zealand share
- 8.7%
- Rank by share in Wellington City
- 9 of 32
- Rank by share in New Zealand
- joint 349 of 644
Churton Park at a glance
Where Churton Park differs most from suburbs across New Zealand: median weekly rent, new tenancies (higher than 97% of NZ suburbs); homes with a heat pump (lower than 94% of NZ suburbs).
Higher or lower is not better or worse. Sources and limits
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What the data tells you
Recorded facts
- Churton Park is listed under Wellington City.
- 2,953 live titles are recorded here, including 271 cross-lease titles (9.2%).
- 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 9.2% of the recorded title mix. That describes the suburb, not any particular home.
- Unit titles account for 1.6% 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 Churton Park
| Title type | Live titles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 2,539 | 86.0% |
| Cross lease | 271 | 9.2% |
| Unit title | 48 | 1.6% |
| Leasehold | 85 | 2.9% |
| Other record types | 10 | 0.3% |
| Total | 2,953 | 100% |
Counts are titles, not homes; the register can lag conversions, so check the certificate of title. Sources and limits
How Churton Park compares
Nationally, 8.7% of live titles are cross-lease; Churton Park is close to the national share (8.7%).
Across Wellington City as a whole, the share is 5.6%; Churton Park is about 1.6 times the overall Wellington City share (5.6%).
How cross-leases in Churton Park are set up
Separate exclusive-use areas are less common (3% of schemes, against 5% nationally).
Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (22%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.
Carports appear in more leases (19% of schemes, against 13% nationally).
| Scheme structure | Churton Park | Wellington City | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-lease schemes (shared sections) | 116 | 2,130 | 87,651 |
| Two-flat schemes | 90.5% | 82.4% | 76.2% |
| Three-flat schemes | 0.0% | 6.7% | 12.2% |
| Four or more flats | 9.5% | 10.4% | 11.4% |
| Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey) | 765 m² | 759 m² | 908 m² |
| Typical land per flat | 360 m² | 350 m² | 408 m² |
| Schemes with a garage written into a lease | 24.1% | 18.0% | 28.4% |
| Schemes with a carport in a lease | 19.0% | 8.1% | 13.3% |
| Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area | 2.6% | 4.3% | 4.5% |
| Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem) | 22.4% | 22.5% | 35.6% |
| Median year of earliest current title | 1980 | 1987 | 1988 |
| Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more | 61 | 991 | 54,978 |
Unit titles and leasehold in Churton Park
Unit titles are 2% of Churton Park's titles, well below Wellington City (25%) and well below New Zealand (8%). They belong to 10 developments, each run by a body corporate; half have 3 units or fewer.
The unit-title share is in the lowest quarter of 32 in Wellington City.
85 titles (2.9%) are leasehold, well above the national share (1.2%).
Most stated terms have more than 50 years to run.
Stated lease terms, as at 30 September 2026:
| Stated lease term | Titles |
|---|---|
| Stated term has ended | 0 |
| Under 10 years left | 0 |
| 10 to 50 years left | 0 |
| More than 50 years left | 84 |
| Term mentions renewal (including perpetually renewable) | 1 |
| Term not stated or not readable | 0 |
New titles in Churton Park since 2020
210 of Churton Park's current titles (7%) were first issued since 2020, slightly below Wellington City's suburbs with new-title figures taken together (8%) and well below New Zealand (12%).
| Title type | Since 2020 | Since 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 208 | 108 |
| Unit title | 0 | 0 |
| Cross-lease | 1 | 0 |
| Leasehold | 1 | 0 |
| Other | 0 | 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 Churton Park
The typical building in Churton Park stands on ground sloping 5.6° (read on an 8 m grid, so short steep banks may be understated), in the flattest quarter of 32 in Wellington City.
The land rises from about 66 m to 273 m, and 44% 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 Churton Park
Churton Park is inland: the typical title is 4.0 km from the sea or harbour edge, and fewer than 1 in 2,000 titles are within 1 km of it.
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 Churton Park: 2023 Census
Churton Park's titles fall in 3 census areas (Stats NZ statistical areas). The 2 shown below hold 96% of its titles; their figures are shown side by side and are not added together.
Fewer workers walk or cycle to work in Churton Park North than across Wellington City: 1.8% against 19.8%.
Fewer households have no car in Churton Park North than across Wellington City: 1.8% against 15.2%.
Fewer people live alone in Churton Park North than across Wellington City: 7.5% against 24.1%.
| Measure | Churton Park North 51% of titles | Churton Park South 46% of titles | Wellington City whole council |
|---|---|---|---|
| Usual residents | 4,383 | 3,465 | 202,689 |
| Change since 2018 | +26.6% | +1.9% | −0.0% |
| Change since 2013 | +51.7% | +5.3% | +6.1% |
| Median age | 37.8 | 38.1 | 34.9 |
| Households | 1,323 | 1,197 | 77,004 |
| Own or part-own their home (including family trusts) | 78.9% | 75.6% | 58.6% |
| Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting) | 21.1% | 24.4% | 41.4% |
| Median household income | $187,200 | $146,200 | $134,500 |
| Median weekly rent, renting households | $795 | $600 | $560 |
| Dwellings unoccupied on census night | 4.0% | 4.3% | 7.8% |
| Ages | |||
| Under 15 | 21.6% | 19.3% | 14.4% |
| 15 to 29 | 18.5% | 18.3% | 27.2% |
| 30 to 64 | 48.9% | 50.6% | 46.8% |
| 65 and over | 11.0% | 11.9% | 11.7% |
| Where people came from | |||
| Born overseas | 48.5% | 41.2% | 34.6% |
| Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years | 19.9% | 21.8% | 23.2% |
| Lived elsewhere in New Zealand 5 years ago (of all residents, including children born since) | 41.5% | 35.3% | 44.2% |
| Lived overseas 5 years ago (of all residents) | 6.1% | 5.2% | 5.4% |
| Moved here in the last year (of all residents) | 17.2% | 17.0% | 24.0% |
| Work and study (people 15 and over) | |||
| Bachelor degree or higher | 48.4% | 45.0% | 48.6% |
| Employed full-time | 59.7% | 61.8% | 59.0% |
| Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate) | 2.0% | 2.1% | 3.0% |
| Managers and professionals (of those employed) | 63.3% | 56.6% | 59.5% |
| Median personal income | $62,500 | $61,800 | $55,500 |
| Getting to work (of those employed) | |||
| Work from home | 26.7% | 21.2% | 18.7% |
| Car, truck or van | 56.7% | 57.6% | 39.0% |
| Bus, train or ferry | 14.1% | 17.3% | 20.0% |
| Walk or cycle | 1.8% | 2.3% | 19.8% |
| Households and families | |||
| One-person households | 7.5% | 16.2% | 24.1% |
| Average people per household | 3.3 | 2.9 | 2.6 |
| Households with no motor vehicle | 1.8% | 3.3% | 15.2% |
| Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms) | 1.8% | 3.5% | 5.0% |
| Couples with children (of families) | 59.8% | 53.2% | 43.0% |
| Couples without children | 31.0% | 35.2% | 44.8% |
| One-parent families | 9.0% | 11.3% | 12.2% |
| Homes | |||
| Separate (stand-alone) houses | 92.3% | 79.4% | 59.7% |
| Average bedrooms | 3.9 | 3.4 | 2.8 |
| Heated with a heat pump | 50.7% | 62.2% | 53.6% |
| Damp, always or sometimes | 7.8% | 17.0% | 22.9% |
| Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes | 6.5% | 13.1% | 16.1% |
Rents around Churton Park
New tenancies in Churton Park North in the April–June 2026 quarter had a median rent of $880 a week (up 10.0% on a year earlier). That is above the typical suburb in Wellington City ($625), and above the national median ($600); the highest of 27 in Wellington City.
| April–June 2026 | Churton Park North 51% of titles | Churton Park South 46% of titles | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median weekly rent, new tenancies | $880 | $665 | $600 |
| Middle half of rents | $725–$920 | $598–$761 | $490–$700 |
| Change in median on a year earlier | +10.0% | −8.3% | +0.2% |
| Bonds lodged in the quarter | 21 | 18 | 40,827 |
Schools and hospitals near Churton Park
LINZ maps 2 school sites inside Churton Park, among them Amesbury School (Contributing) and Churton Park School (Contributing).
- Amesbury School (Contributing)
- Churton Park School (Contributing)
- Nearest school: Amesbury School (0.2 km)
- Nearest secondary school: Newlands College (2.5 km)
- Nearest public general hospital: Kenepuru Hospital (6.5 km)
School enrolment zones in Churton Park: a guide
Four secondary schools have a home zone covering most of Churton Park's titles, among them Hutt International Boys School, Newlands College and Onslow College.
- Churton Park School (primary, Years 1–6): about 60% of titles
- Johnsonville School (primary, Years 1–6): about 45% of titles
- Amesbury School (primary, Years 1–6): about 45% of titles
- Newlands Intermediate (intermediate, Years 7–8): all or nearly all titles
- Raroa Normal Intermediate (intermediate, Years 7–8): all or nearly all titles
- Hutt International Boys School (secondary): all or nearly all titles
- Newlands College (secondary): all or nearly all titles
- Onslow College (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 Churton Park
98% of Churton Park's titles are within 400 m of a stop with a scheduled weekday service, close to Wellington City as a whole (96%).
60% are that close to a frequent stop (60 or more departures that day), slightly below the council (69%).
The typical title is 131 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 Churton Park
OpenStreetMap maps 1 place of worship inside Churton Park (1 Christian).
Nearest mapped place of each tradition within 10 km:
- Christian: Churton Park Anglican Church, under 1 km away
- Hindu: Kurinji Kumaran Temple, 2.9 km away
- Buddhist: Mountains and Rivers Order Zen, 9.2 km away
- Muslim: Newlands Mosque, 2.8 km away
Listed as facilities for access; not an indicator of who lives here. Sources and limits
Other suburbs in Wellington City with many cross-leases
- Johnsonville: 616 cross-lease titles (13.1%)
- Karori: 469 cross-lease titles (7.9%)
- Tawa: 380 cross-lease titles (6.8%)
- Miramar: 335 cross-lease titles (8.8%)
- Newlands: 328 cross-lease titles (10.5%)
- Khandallah: 230 cross-lease titles (6.6%)
- Woodridge: 186 cross-lease titles (25.4%)
- Lyall Bay: 166 cross-lease titles (11.7%)
All suburbs in Wellington City
Suburbs like Churton Park
The closest match on the measures on this site is Grenada Village in Wellington City, nearest on distance to the coast, distance to a hospital, home ownership. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grenada Village | Wellington City | 5.4% | No data | 37.1 | distance to the coast, distance to a hospital, home ownership |
| Seatoun | Wellington City | 4.5% | $835 | 46.2 | damp homes, household income, commuting by public transport |
| Woodridge | Wellington City | 25.4% | $690 | 36.4 | born overseas, children, near a stop |
| Papakōwhai | Porirua City | 8.1% | No data | 40 | unit-title share, cross-lease share, commuting by public transport |
| Khandallah | Wellington City | 6.6% | $735 | 41.6 | home ownership, distance to a hospital, distance to the coast |
Questions
What is the rent in Churton Park?
New tenancies in Churton Park North (the rent area for part of Churton Park) had a median rent of $880 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 $725 to $920.
What schools are in Churton Park?
LINZ maps 2 school sites inside Churton Park: Amesbury School and Churton Park School. The nearest secondary school to its centre is Newlands College (2.5 km in a straight line). Secondary-school home zones covering most of its titles include Hutt International Boys School, Newlands College and Onslow College; check the school's own zone map for any address.