Where Wellington rents sit
Among areas with 30 or more bonds behind their figure, so one unusual letting cannot top the list.
Highest typical rent
- Karaka Bay-Worser Bay · $854 a week
- Seatoun · $846 a week
- Wellington University · $829 a week
- Oriental Bay · $828 a week
- Churton Park North · $818 a week
Lowest typical rent
- Wellington Central · $386 a week
- Karori South · $475 a week
- Mount Cook West · $513 a week
- Mount Cook East · $514 a week
- Dixon Street · $516 a week
Rent in Wellington, area by area
Typical weekly rent for a whole home (house, flat or apartment), July 2025 to June 2026. The change compares the same twelve months a year earlier; under 2% either way is shown as flat. The bonds column is how many new tenancies each figure rests on.
| Area | Typical rent / week | vs year before | Bonds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aro Valley | $690 | Flat | 279 |
| Berhampore | $671 | Flat | 141 |
| Broadmeadows | $670 | −5% | 51 |
| Brooklyn East | $627 | Flat | 129 |
| Brooklyn North | $683 | −8% | 96 |
| Brooklyn South | $677 | −6% | 96 |
| Churton Park North | $818 | Flat | 102 |
| Churton Park South | $672 | −8% | 81 |
| Courtenay | $544 | Flat | 291 |
| Crofton Downs | $588 | +3% | 45 |
| Dixon Street | $516 | −11% | 861 |
| Evans Bay | $763 | +2% | 45 |
| Grenada North | $645 | −5% | 39 |
| Grenada Village | $678 | −8% | 21 |
| Hataitai North | $623 | −3% | 234 |
| Hataitai South | $660 | Flat | 51 |
| Houghton Bay | $746 | −4% | 27 |
| Island Bay East | $690 | Flat | 90 |
| Island Bay West | $669 | −9% | 99 |
| Johnsonville Central | $574 | −10% | 168 |
| Johnsonville North | $666 | −6% | 108 |
| Johnsonville South | $650 | −5% | 90 |
| Johnsonville West | $678 | −6% | 105 |
| Karaka Bay-Worser Bay | $854 | Flat | 54 |
| Karori East | $697 | Flat | 75 |
| Karori North | $760 | +8% | 72 |
| Karori Park | $665 | −3% | 117 |
| Karori South | $475 | −33% | 141 |
| Kelburn | $716 | Flat | 141 |
| Khandallah North | $721 | −7% | 60 |
| Khandallah Reserve | $730 | −19% | 42 |
| Khandallah South | $776 | Flat | 27 |
| Kilbirnie Central | $582 | −10% | 144 |
| Kilbirnie East | $654 | −9% | 42 |
| Kingston-Mornington-Vogeltown | $622 | Flat | 111 |
| Linden | $629 | Flat | 78 |
| Lyall Bay | $683 | Flat | 87 |
| Maupuia | $655 | −4% | 48 |
| Melrose | $679 | Flat | 45 |
| Miramar Central | $666 | Flat | 66 |
| Miramar East | $684 | −10% | 75 |
| Miramar North | $692 | n/a | 27 |
| Miramar South | $728 | +3% | 81 |
| Mount Cook East | $514 | −6% | 420 |
| Mount Cook West | $513 | −11% | 456 |
| Mount Victoria | $651 | Flat | 372 |
| Newlands North | $622 | −7% | 117 |
| Newlands South | $658 | −2% | 153 |
| Newtown North | $615 | −8% | 138 |
| Newtown South | $645 | −2% | 174 |
| Newtown West | $617 | −9% | 267 |
| Ngaio North | $666 | +3% | 75 |
| Ngaio South | $672 | −8% | 96 |
| Northland | $615 | −7% | 231 |
| Onslow | $701 | −10% | 72 |
| Oriental Bay | $828 | +10% | 90 |
| Owhiro Bay | $744 | +4% | 51 |
| Paparangi | $620 | −9% | 96 |
| Pipitea-Kaiwharawhara | $554 | −4% | 150 |
| Roseneath | $705 | −3% | 108 |
| Seatoun | $846 | −12% | 42 |
| Strathmore | $701 | Flat | 42 |
| Tawa Central | $652 | Flat | 66 |
| Tawa North | $626 | +4% | 75 |
| Tawa South | $653 | −9% | 72 |
| Thorndon | $607 | Flat | 426 |
| Vivian East | $516 | −6% | 465 |
| Vivian West | $536 | Flat | 573 |
| Wadestown | $673 | Flat | 132 |
| Wellington Botanic Gardens | $708 | −16% | 39 |
| Wellington Central | $386 | −26% | 663 |
| Wellington University | $829 | +9% | 105 |
| Wilton | $607 | −4% | 84 |
| Woodridge | $691 | −8% | 54 |
2 more areas had fewer than 20 whole-home bonds over the year, too few to state a rent: Makara-Ohariu, Southgate. You can still look them up in Know Your Suburb, which shows what the records do hold.
These are Stats NZ statistical areas, not suburbs as people name them, so a larger suburb can appear as several rows (a North, South and West, say). Search the tool for any one of them to see its rent by property type and size, and who lives there.
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Where these numbers come from
Rents come from Tenancy Services rental bond data (Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, CC BY 3.0 NZ), covering bonds lodged from July 2025 to June 2026. “Typical rent” is the four quarterly medians combined and weighted by the number of bonds behind each. That is close to a twelve-month median but not exactly one, which is why we call it typical rather than median.
It counts whole homes only: houses, flats and apartments. Rooms let individually are priced per bed and would drag the figure below what a whole property rents for. Where fewer than 20 bonds were lodged in an area over the year, no figure is shown.
Household figures come from the 2023 Census (Stats NZ, CC BY 4.0). Census counts are randomly rounded to protect confidentiality, so shares are approximate.
Figures: bond data to June 2026. These describe whole areas and cannot value an individual property.