Median weekly bonded rent
$570
NZD per week · newly lodged bonds
Official rental bond evidence
Wellington City
rental statistics
3 months ending August 2026
Wellington City rental bond statistics
All bedrooms · All dwelling types
Change location or bedrooms
All dwelling types are combined. Property-type filters require additional source observations.
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
All dwelling types · 3 months ending August 2026 · NZD per week
1 bedroom$4951,353 bonds
2 bedrooms$595378 bonds
3 bedrooms$715312 bonds
4 bedrooms$820126 bonds
5+ bedrooms$86051 bonds
Bars begin at $0. Each bedroom group is a different sample. This is a comparison across homes, not a price trend.
Reading the local market
Understanding Wellington City rental evidence
Wellington City: the median weekly rent recorded in newly lodged bonds was NZ$570 for all dwelling types, all bedroom counts, over the 3 months ending August 2026. The reported sample was 2,250 bonds, randomly rounded by MBIE.
What does the Wellington City rent sample include?
The all bedroom counts sample contains 2,250 reported newly lodged bonds across all dwelling types for the 3 months ending August 2026. The middle 50% of recorded weekly rents falls between NZ$440 and NZ$700. Counts are randomly rounded. Rooms and boarding houses are included in the source's combined dwelling category, so this is not a house-only rent estimate.
Does this cover more than Wellington City?
The official Wellington City territorial authority aggregate; this is not the wider Wellington region.
How recent is this rental evidence?
The reporting window is the 3 months ending August 2026. The source snapshot was updated on 3 October 2026. It records a completed bond-reporting period, rather than rents being advertised today.
Can this tell me what to ask for my property in Wellington City?
The NZ$570 median describes this all bedroom counts bond sample; it is not a rental appraisal. Current asking rents, a property's condition and its precise location can differ from the sample. Use the source figures as context when requesting property-specific advice. Monthly and annual rent changes are withheld while source comparability is under review.
Explore the evidence
Other local rental markets
All bedrooms · All dwelling types · 3 months ending August 2026. Newly bonded rents from the same source period. Property mixes differ between areas; these figures are not a ranking. Statistical areas can cover only part of a suburb.
Wellington 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 bonds
More rental markets (21 more)
Karori Park$625 / week · 27 bondsNewtown 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
Built on Transparency
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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