Median weekly bonded rent
$570
NZD per week · newly lodged bonds
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Wellington City at a glance
3 months ending August 2026 · All dwelling types, all bedrooms.
Source updated 3 October 2026.
Provisional MBIE data. Recent records may be incomplete or revised. Growth comparisons are withheld.
Bonds in the selected sample
2,250
Source counts are randomly rounded
Middle 50% of weekly rents
$440–$700
Lower to upper quartile · NZD
Newly bonded rents, not advertised asking rents. Minimum sample checks apply.
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Choose an official source area. Some cover only part of a commonly named suburb.
Wellington City$570 / week · 2,250 bondsWellington Central$400 / week · 120 bondsMount Victoria$560 / week · 66 bondsMount Cook West$490 / week · 75 bondsKelburn$740 / week · 15 bondsAro Valley$560 / week · 45 bondsThorndon$600 / week · 93 bondsKarori Park$625 / week · 27 bonds
More rental markets (20 more)
Newtown North$640 / week · 24 bondsBerhampore$510 / week · 33 bondsIsland Bay West$578 / week · 21 bondsKilbirnie Central$565 / week · 18 bondsHataitai North$540 / week · 42 bondsJohnsonville West$655 / week · 24 bondsNgaio North$685 / week · 12 bondsCrofton Downs$540 / week · 15 bondsTawa North$698 / week · 15 bondsPetone Central$495 / week · 30 bondsHutt Central North$498 / week · 33 bondsHutt Central South$660 / week · 24 bondsUpper Hutt Central$650 / week · 12 bondsAvalon West$605 / week · 18 bondsTaita North$530 / week · 30 bondsNaenae Central$510 / week · 15 bondsEpuni West$395 / week · 54 bondsWaterloo West$565 / week · 21 bondsAlicetown-Melling$530 / week · 18 bondsWainuiomata West$610 / week · 24 bonds
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Behind the numbers
What the median tells you
The median is the middle rent in the source sample. Half of the sampled rents are at or below it and half are at or above it. It describes the homes in that sample; it is not a valuation of an individual property.
Bonded and advertised rents are different
These rents come from newly lodged rental bonds. They are not current asking rents, the rent of every existing tenancy, or evidence that a property advertised elsewhere has been let.
Keep the geography in view
The official Wellington City territorial authority aggregate; this is not the wider Wellington region.
Source and provenance
- Source
- Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment — Tenancy Services
- Source area
- Wellington City
- Reporting period
- 3 months ending August 2026
- Snapshot updated
- 3 October 2026
- Source retrieved
- 3 October 2026
- Licence
- Crown copyright, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand
Statistics are read from the validated source snapshot.
Coverage, sample checks and limitations
- Weekly rents are NZD amounts recorded in newly lodged private-sector bonds, not advertised rents, all existing tenancies or a property valuation.
- All dwelling types are combined, including rooms and boarding houses. Property-type filters require additional source observations.
- Counts are randomly rounded by MBIE. They may not sum to the published total. Bands below 10 reported bonds are withheld.
- The official Wellington City territorial authority aggregate; this is not the wider Wellington region.
- Tenancy Services advises that bond data is provisional during its system migration. Recent releases may be incomplete, revised or not directly comparable with earlier periods. Changes and market explanations are withheld pending comparability review.
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