Suburbs in Whanganui District: rents, census and property titles

LINZ recorded 23,576 live titles in Whanganui District on 30 September 2026: 88% freehold, then cross-lease at 6.6%. Its 1,561 cross-lease titles (6.6%) are below the national share of 8.7%.

Whanganui District cross-lease titles

Cross-lease titles: 1,561
Share of live titles: 6.6%
Live titles in total: 23,576
New Zealand share: 8.7%
Suburbs with 30+ cross-lease titles: 10

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

Title mix in Whanganui District

Title type	Live titles	Share
Freehold	20,659	87.6%
Cross lease	1,561	6.6%
Unit title	789	3.3%
Leasehold	335	1.4%
Other record types	232	1.0%
Total	23,576	100%

Counts are titles, not homes. Sources and limits

How cross-leases in Whanganui District are set up

Separate exclusive-use areas are less common (2% of schemes, against 5% nationally).

More leases include a garage (49% of schemes, against 28% nationally).

Fewer schemes refer to more than one flats plan (21%, against 36% nationally), usually because a plan was redrawn.

Scheme structure	Whanganui District	New Zealand
Cross-lease schemes (shared sections)	602	87,651
Two-flat schemes	67.4%	76.2%
Three-flat schemes	14.1%	12.2%
Four or more flats	18.1%	11.4%
Typical section size (from the titles, not a survey)	863 m²	908 m²
Typical land per flat	344 m²	408 m²
Schemes with a garage written into a lease	49.0%	28.4%
Schemes with a carport in a lease	21.3%	13.3%
Schemes with a separate exclusive-use area	2.0%	4.5%
Schemes referring to more than one flats plan (usually redrawn; not by itself a problem)	20.9%	35.6%
Median year of earliest current title	1985	1988
Two-flat schemes on 700 m² or more	236	54,978

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Among suburbs with at least 300 live and 30 cross-lease titles, the highest cross-lease shares in Whanganui District are in Springvale (15.2%), Whanganui (10.1%), Tawhero (9.3%), Wanganui East (8.8%), Gonville (8.5%).

Suburbs in Whanganui District by cross-lease share

Suburb	Cross-lease titles	Live titles	Share
Springvale	309	2,033	15.2%
Whanganui	305	3,005	10.1%
Tawhero	105	1,135	9.3%
Wanganui East	232	2,641	8.8%
Gonville	214	2,522	8.5%
College Estate	34	414	8.2%
Saint Johns Hill	66	1,030	6.4%
Aramoho	117	1,963	6.0%
Castlecliff	137	2,667	5.1%
Durie Hill	30	751	4.0%

Whanganui District at a glance

8% of titles in Whanganui District's suburbs were first issued since 2020, well below New Zealand (12%). 8% of titles are within 1 km of the sea or harbour edge. The wider district is about as wet as the national average for homes (970 mm of rain a year, against 1,000 mm) and close to it (13.7°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	Typical distance to the coast
Springvale	15.2%	No data	6.7%	44.2	55.1%	0.9°	3.7 km
Whanganui	10.1%	$450	4.2%	40	50.2%	0.8°	5 km
Tawhero	9.3%	$570	6.2%	38.1	53.3%	1.1°	2.8 km
Wanganui East	8.8%	$520	3.6%	42.3	50.0%	0.7°	6.6 km
Gonville	8.5%	$550	6.2%	41.7	46.8%	1°	2.3 km
College Estate	8.2%	No data	2.7%	42.2	51.0%	1°	3.9 km
Saint Johns Hill	6.4%	No data	6.8%	49.3	55.5%	1.8°	5.1 km
Aramoho	6.0%	$510	8.7%	39.6	46.3%	0.7°	8.3 km
Castlecliff	5.1%	No data	11.0%	34.4	44.1%	1.4°	0.9 km
Durie Hill	4.0%	$540	5.3%	48.6	44.4%	2.6°	4.8 km

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New titles by year in Whanganui District

2025 brought 259 titles still live, about the same as the 5-year average before it (269), against a peak of 363 in 2022.

Year issued	All new titles	Freehold	Unit titles	Cross-lease	Leasehold	Other
2020	232	207	11	5	8	1
2021	201	178	8	4	11	0
2022	363	329	26	0	7	1
2023	291	278	3	1	9	0
2024	259	232	14	2	7	4
2025	259	238	10	3	7	1
2026 (Jan–Sep)	227	219	1	0	6	1

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Cross-lease titles in Whanganui District, by suburb

Unit titles in Whanganui District, by suburb

Leasehold titles in Whanganui District, by suburb

Whanganui District at the 2023 Census

Measure	Whanganui District 2023 Census
Usual residents	47,619
Change since 2018	+5.1%
Change since 2013	+13.0%
Median age	42.9
Households	18,726
Own or part-own their home (including family trusts)	70.4%
Not owned and not in a family trust (mostly renting)	29.6%
Median household income	$63,600
Median weekly rent, renting households	$340
Dwellings unoccupied on census night	8.1%
Ages
Under 15	19.0%
15 to 29	16.3%
30 to 64	42.4%
65 and over	22.3%
Where people came from
Born overseas	13.5%
Of those born overseas, arrived in the last 5 years	18.4%
Lived elsewhere in New Zealand 5 years ago (of all residents, including children born since)	43.3%
Lived overseas 5 years ago (of all residents)	3.0%
Moved here in the last year (of all residents)	16.4%
Work and study (people 15 and over)
Bachelor degree or higher	17.6%
Employed full-time	42.8%
Unemployed (share of everyone 15 and over, not the unemployment rate)	3.7%
Managers and professionals (of those employed)	39.1%
Median personal income	$32,500
Getting to work (of those employed)
Work from home	14.0%
Car, truck or van	78.3%
Bus, train or ferry	0.5%
Walk or cycle	6.0%
Households and families
One-person households	32.1%
Average people per household	2.4
Households with no motor vehicle	8.1%
Crowded households (need one or more extra bedrooms)	5.1%
Couples with children (of families)	33.9%
Couples without children	43.6%
One-parent families	22.5%
Homes
Separate (stand-alone) houses	84.6%
Average bedrooms	3
Heated with a heat pump	48.2%
Damp, always or sometimes	20.1%
Mould over A4 size, always or sometimes	15.7%

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