Living in Newlands: rents, schools, census and property titles
The 3,131 live property titles in Newlands, Wellington City are almost all freehold (83%), as recorded by LINZ on 30 September 2026. Cross-lease titles number 328 (10.5%), above the national share of 8.7%.
- Cross-lease titles
- 328
- Share of live titles
- 10.5%
- Live titles in total
- 3,131
- Wellington City share
- 5.6%
- New Zealand share
- 8.7%
- Rank by share in Wellington City
- 7 of 32
- Rank by share in New Zealand
- joint 316 of 644
Newlands at a glance
Where Newlands differs most from suburbs across New Zealand: median slope under buildings (higher than 94% of NZ suburbs).
Higher or lower is not better or worse. Sources and limits
Start here
What the data tells you
Recorded facts
- Newlands is listed under Wellington City.
- 3,131 live titles are recorded here, including 328 cross-lease titles (10.5%).
- 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 10.5% of the recorded title mix. That describes the suburb, not any particular home.
- Unit titles account for 3.9% 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 Newlands
| Title type | Live titles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 2,605 | 83.2% |
| Cross lease | 328 | 10.5% |
| Unit title | 123 | 3.9% |
| Leasehold | 37 | 1.2% |
| Other record types | 38 | 1.2% |
| Total | 3,131 | 100% |
Counts are titles, not homes; the register can lag conversions, so check the certificate of title. Sources and limits
How Newlands compares
Nationally, 8.7% of live titles are cross-lease; Newlands is higher than the national share (8.7%).
Across Wellington City as a whole, the share is 5.6%; Newlands is about 1.9 times the overall Wellington City share (5.6%).
Its cross-lease share is in the highest quarter of 32 in Wellington City (among suburbs with an indexed page on this site).
How cross-leases in Newlands are set up
Three-flat schemes are less common here (3%, against 12% nationally).
Fewer schemes have four or more flats on one section (3%, against 11% nationally).
Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (16%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.
| Scheme structure | Newlands | Wellington City | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-lease schemes (shared sections) | 158 | 2,130 | 87,651 |
| Two-flat schemes | 93.7% | 82.4% | 76.2% |
| Three-flat schemes | 3.2% | 6.7% | 12.2% |
| Four or more flats | 2.5% | 10.4% | 11.4% |
| Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey) | 754 m² | 759 m² | 908 m² |
| Typical land per flat | 374 m² | 350 m² | 408 m² |
| Schemes with a garage written into a lease | 19.0% | 18.0% | 28.4% |
| Schemes with a carport in a lease | 8.9% | 8.1% | 13.3% |
| Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area | 3.8% | 4.3% | 4.5% |
| Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem) | 15.8% | 22.5% | 35.6% |
| Median year of earliest current title | 1980 | 1987 | 1988 |
| Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more | 87 | 991 | 54,978 |
Unit titles and leasehold in Newlands
Unit titles are 4% of Newlands's titles, well below Wellington City (25%) and well below New Zealand (8%). They belong to 38 developments, each run by a body corporate; half have 2 units or fewer.
The unit-title share is in the lowest quarter of 32 in Wellington City.
37 titles (1.2%) are leasehold, close to the national share (1.2%).
1 of them have a stated term that has ended or has under 10 years to run, which is worth reading closely in the lease.
Stated lease terms, as at 30 September 2026:
| Stated lease term | Titles |
|---|---|
| Stated term has ended | 1 |
| Under 10 years left | 0 |
| 10 to 50 years left | 0 |
| More than 50 years left | 15 |
| Term mentions renewal (including perpetually renewable) | 20 |
| Term not stated or not readable | 1 |
New titles in Newlands since 2020
193 of Newlands's current titles (6%) were first issued since 2020, below Wellington City's suburbs with new-title figures taken together (8%) and well below New Zealand (12%).
22% are unit titles, in 6 developments; most of the rest are freehold.
| Title type | Since 2020 | Since 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Freehold | 131 | 41 |
| Unit title | 43 | 12 |
| Cross-lease | 4 | 4 |
| Leasehold | 10 | 5 |
| Other | 5 | 3 |
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 Newlands
The typical building in Newlands stands on ground sloping 8.6° (read on an 8 m grid, so short steep banks may be understated).
About 16% of its 3,362 measured buildings stand on ground of 15° or more.
The land rises from about 5 m to 282 m, and 55% 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 Newlands
0% of Newlands's titles are within 200 m of the sea or harbour edge, 2% within 500 m and 25% within 1 km. The typical title is 1.3 km away.
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 Newlands: 2023 Census
Newlands's titles fall in 4 census areas (Stats NZ statistical areas). The 3 shown below hold 100% of its titles; their figures are shown side by side and are not added together.
Fewer workers walk or cycle to work in Newlands North than across Wellington City: 2.5% against 19.8%.
Fewer households have no car in Newlands North than across Wellington City: 5.6% against 15.2%.
Fewer adults hold a degree in Newlands North than across Wellington City: 37.9% against 48.6%.
| Measure | Newlands North 35% of titles | Newlands East 33% of titles | Newlands South 31% of titles | Wellington City whole council |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Usual residents | 3,018 | 2,877 | 2,451 | 202,689 |
| Change since 2018 | −4.6% | +3.3% | +14.7% | −0.0% |
| Change since 2013 | −0.9% | +10.9% | +31.8% | +6.1% |
| Median age | 35.3 | 35.9 | 33.8 | 34.9 |
| Households | 1,131 | 981 | 858 | 77,004 |
| Own or part-own their home (including family trusts) | 62.9% | 70.6% | 64.3% | 58.6% |
| Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting) | 37.1% | 29.1% | 35.7% | 41.4% |
| Median household income | $121,100 | $142,300 | $138,100 | $134,500 |
| Median weekly rent, renting households | $540 | $618 | $576 | $560 |
| Dwellings unoccupied on census night | 5.0% | 4.1% | 5.8% | 7.8% |
| Ages | ||||
| Under 15 | 17.4% | 18.2% | 20.2% | 14.4% |
| 15 to 29 | 21.4% | 21.9% | 20.7% | 27.2% |
| 30 to 64 | 51.3% | 49.2% | 51.4% | 46.8% |
| 65 and over | 9.9% | 10.6% | 7.7% | 11.7% |
| Where people came from | ||||
| Born overseas | 36.6% | 37.4% | 37.4% | 34.6% |
| Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years | 18.9% | 16.3% | 21.6% | 23.2% |
| Lived elsewhere in New Zealand 5 years ago (of all residents, including children born since) | 39.9% | 36.4% | 44.1% | 44.2% |
| Lived overseas 5 years ago (of all residents) | 3.2% | 4.3% | 4.0% | 5.4% |
| Moved here in the last year (of all residents) | 18.0% | 16.0% | 19.6% | 24.0% |
| Work and study (people 15 and over) | ||||
| Bachelor degree or higher | 37.9% | 40.1% | 40.5% | 48.6% |
| Employed full-time | 61.5% | 61.6% | 64.4% | 59.0% |
| Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate) | 2.0% | 2.7% | 2.5% | 3.0% |
| Managers and professionals (of those employed) | 52.0% | 54.0% | 57.7% | 59.5% |
| Median personal income | $54,400 | $56,500 | $59,300 | $55,500 |
| Getting to work (of those employed) | ||||
| Work from home | 18.0% | 19.2% | 19.5% | 18.7% |
| Car, truck or van | 56.1% | 55.8% | 54.5% | 39.0% |
| Bus, train or ferry | 22.1% | 21.2% | 21.3% | 20.0% |
| Walk or cycle | 2.5% | 2.4% | 2.8% | 19.8% |
| Households and families | ||||
| One-person households | 21.3% | 14.3% | 15.0% | 24.1% |
| Average people per household | 2.7 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 2.6 |
| Households with no motor vehicle | 5.6% | 3.2% | 5.2% | 15.2% |
| Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms) | 6.3% | 5.6% | 5.4% | 5.0% |
| Couples with children (of families) | 44.9% | 44.6% | 52.0% | 43.0% |
| Couples without children | 38.2% | 41.3% | 35.1% | 44.8% |
| One-parent families | 16.9% | 13.7% | 13.3% | 12.2% |
| Homes | ||||
| Separate (stand-alone) houses | 72.5% | 88.1% | 76.7% | 59.7% |
| Average bedrooms | 2.9 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 2.8 |
| Heated with a heat pump | 67.2% | 69.6% | 71.7% | 53.6% |
| Damp, always or sometimes | 29.9% | 23.1% | 25.9% | 22.9% |
| Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes | 21.5% | 19.7% | 20.6% | 16.1% |
Rents around Newlands
New tenancies in Newlands North in the April–June 2026 quarter had a median rent of $603 a week (down 2.7% on a year earlier). That is close to the typical suburb in Wellington City ($625), and close to the national median ($600).
| April–June 2026 | Newlands North 35% of titles | Newlands South 64% of titles | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median weekly rent, new tenancies | $603 | $650 | $600 |
| Middle half of rents | $538–$706 | $593–$700 | $490–$700 |
| Change in median on a year earlier | −2.7% | +4.3% | +0.2% |
| Bonds lodged in the quarter | 18 | 30 | 40,827 |
Schools and hospitals near Newlands
LINZ maps 2 school sites inside Newlands, among them Bellevue School (Newlands) (Contributing) and Newlands School (Contributing).
- Bellevue School (Newlands) (Contributing)
- Newlands School (Contributing)
- Nearest school: Bellevue School (Newlands) (0.4 km)
- Nearest secondary school: Newlands College (1.4 km)
- Nearest public general hospital: Hutt Hospital (8.7 km)
School enrolment zones in Newlands: a guide
Three secondary schools have a home zone covering most of Newlands's titles: Hutt International Boys School, Newlands College and St Oran's College.
- Bellevue School (Newlands) (primary, Years 1–6): about 55% of titles
- Newlands School (primary, Years 1–6): about 40% of titles
- Rewa Rewa School (primary, Years 1–6): about 30% of titles
- Newlands 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
- 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 Newlands
91% of Newlands's titles are within 400 m of a stop with a scheduled weekday service, close to Wellington City as a whole (96%).
25% are that close to a frequent stop (60 or more departures that day), well below the council (69%); in the lowest quarter of 32 in Wellington City.
The typical title is 140 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 Newlands
OpenStreetMap maps 8 places of worship inside Newlands (5 Christian, 2 Hindu, 1 Muslim).
Nearest mapped place of each tradition within 10 km:
- Christian: Newlands Christian Assembly, under 1 km away
- Hindu: ISKCON Wellington Newlands Temple, under 1 km away
- Buddhist: Mountains and Rivers Order Zen, 7.1 km away
- Muslim: Masjid Al-Ameen, under 1 km away
- Jewish: Wellington Progressive Jewish Congregation, 8.4 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%)
- Churton Park: 271 cross-lease titles (9.2%)
- 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 Newlands
The closest match on the measures on this site is Paparangi, Wellington City in Wellington City, nearest on commuting by public transport, degrees, distance to the coast. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paparangi, Wellington City | Wellington City | 5.5% | $650 | 36.3 | commuting by public transport, degrees, distance to the coast |
| Maungaraki | Lower Hutt City | 13.1% | $600 | 38.4 | degrees, rent, commuting on foot or by bike |
| Broadmeadows | Wellington City | 19.1% | $710 | 36.9 | distance to a hospital, commuting on foot or by bike, distance to the coast |
| Johnsonville | Wellington City | 13.1% | $685 | 37 | distance to a hospital, land per flat, distance to the coast |
| Normandale | Lower Hutt City | 6.3% | $570 | 39.6 | commuting on foot or by bike, near a stop, distance to the coast |
Questions
What is the rent in Newlands?
New tenancies in Newlands North (the rent area for part of Newlands) had a median rent of $603 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 $538 to $706.
What schools are in Newlands?
LINZ maps 2 school sites inside Newlands: Bellevue School (Newlands) and Newlands School. The nearest secondary school to its centre is Newlands College (1.4 km in a straight line). Secondary-school home zones covering most of its titles are Hutt International Boys School, Newlands College and St Oran's College; check the school's own zone map for any address.