Paintwork Auckland

Tāmaki Makaurau · 246 suburbs

Painting data for all 246 Auckland suburbs

One page per suburb, each built from the same four public datasets: the dwelling mix behind lodged rental bonds, whether a Special Character Area overlay reaches the suburb, the median rent a repaint has to be justified against, and how much alteration work the local board consents. Nothing on those pages is generated prose — where two suburbs read differently, the data is different.

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Auckland suburbs where a Special Character Area overlay applies — the one planning control that can reach the appearance of a street-facing elevation, and the most useful planning fact there is before a repaint. How the overlays work.

Auckland Council — Special Character Areas Overlay (Residential and Business) · 2026-07-30

What is on each page

Four datasets, joined per suburb

  • Dwelling mix — the share of lodged rental bonds by dwelling type. A rental sample, not a census, and the only free per-suburb signal of what the housing stock is. The Census records neither dwelling age nor cladding material, so this is as close as published data gets.
  • Special Character Area status — whether an overlay applies, how many areas, which types, and an estimated share of the suburb with the sample size shown.
  • Median weekly rent and bond count — MBIE bond lodgements, Q1 2026, framed for a landlord weighing up a repaint.
  • Zoning character and the local board consent market — what the map mostly is, and the declared value of dwelling alterations consented around you.

Auckland’s median across all 16,641 bonds lodged in Q1 2026 was $622 a week — useful only as the line each suburb sits above or below.

Suburb by suburb, the housing stock is the job.

Photography commissioned — plate reserved · July 2026

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Every Auckland suburb

The morsel beside each name is the dominant reported dwelling type, or a note that a Special Character Area overlay applies — because that is the fact most likely to change what your repaint involves.

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By local board

Grouped by local board, with each board’s alteration market

Consent data is published by local board, not by suburb, so this is the level at which the market can be compared honestly. Each suburb page carries its own board’s figures.

Auckland suburbs by local board, with each board’s dwelling alteration market (12 months to 2026.05)
Local boardSuburbs hereAlterations consentedConsentsAverage value
Albert-Eden
Balmoral · Eden Park · Eden Terrace · +16		19$112.21m346$324,294
Devonport-Takapuna
Belmont · Castor Bay · Devonport · +7		10$56.09m273$205,475
Franklin
Anselmi Ridge · Cape Hill · Cloverlea · +12		15$26.47m308$85,940
Henderson-Massey
Glendene · Henderson · Henderson Larnoch · +18		21$12.85m179$71,811
Hibiscus and Bays
Awaruku · Browns Bay · Campbells Bay · +16		19$44.79m374$119,769
Howick
Baverstock · Botany · Botany Downs · +20		23$28.65m256$111,928
Kaipātiki
Bayview · Beach Haven · Birkdale · +7		10$37.24m287$129,752
Māngere-Ōtāhuhu
Aorere · Favona · Harania · +7		10$11.37m83$136,973
Manurewa
Alfriston · Burbank · Clendon Park · +11		14$8.99m85$105,793
Maungakiekie-Tāmaki
Ellerslie · Glen Innes · Glen Innes East-Wai O Taiki Bay · +9		12$11.68m135$86,514
Ōrākei
Glendowie · Kohimarama · Meadowbank · +10		13$98.33m429$229,218
Ōtara-Papatoetoe
Clover Park · Dingwall · Ferguson · +5		8$8.94m72$124,184
Papakura
Conifer Grove · Hingaia · Karaka Lakes · +7		10$3.85m70$55,067
Puketāpapa
Hillsborough · Lynfield · Mount Roskill · +5		8$8.44m104$81,189
Rodney
Dairy Flat · Helensville · Kumeu Rural · +5		8$52.29m391$133,742
Upper Harbour
Albany · Albany Heights · Fairview Heights · +8		11$14.71m138$106,563
Waiheke
Ostend		1$20.11m105$191,567
Waitākere Ranges
Glen Eden · Glen Eden Rosier · Glen Eden Woodglen · +2		5$14.4m210$68,570
Waitematā
Anzac Avenue · Auckland-University · Freemans Bay · +17		20$126.44m353$358,178
Whau
Avondale · Avondale Rosebank · Blockhouse Bay · +6		9$14.22m148$96,082

Declared value is the applicant’s own estimate of build cost on the consent, excluding land, and is inconsistent in its GST treatment. It is market context, not a price for a job.

Stats NZ — Building consents issued, May 2026 · May 2026

By zoning

Grouped by what the zoning map mostly is

Repainting does not depend on zoning. What you could do instead of repainting often does — which is why the bucket is here, and why every suburb page repeats that this is the map and not your section.

Auckland suburbs grouped by what their zoning map mostly is
Zoning characterSuburbsFor example
Mixed Housing Suburban — the Auckland default79Aorere · Avondale Rosebank · Awaruku · Bayview
Mixed Housing Urban — intensifiable65Avondale · Balmoral · Belmont · Botany
Single House — most constrained28Birkenhead · Devonport · Eden Park · Eden Valley
Mixed zoning, no single dominant zone23Albany · Baverstock · Campbells Bay · Grafton
Rural and large-lot19Albany Heights · Cloverlea · Dairy Flat · Drury Rural
Predominantly business-zoned16Anzac Avenue · Auckland-University · Eden Terrace · Henderson Lincoln
Terrace Housing & Apartment — highest intensity11Glen Eden · Glen Innes · Henderson · Huntington Park
Future Urban — greenfield, staged5Alfriston · Anselmi Ridge · Drury · Takanini

The bucket is derived by this site from the base-zone mix sampled across each suburb, not published by Auckland Council as a classification. It describes the map around a suburb, never a particular section.

Auckland Council Unitary Plan base zones (CC BY 4.0) · 2026-07-30

Questions people actually ask

Why does each suburb page show rent rather than house prices?

Because rent is the number a repaint has to be justified against for the roughly one third of Auckland housing that is rented, and because MBIE publishes it per suburb from lodged bonds with the sample size attached. Sale prices are somebody else’s dataset and a different decision.

Is the dwelling mix on these pages the whole suburb?

No. It is the mix of dwelling types across rental bonds lodged in that suburb, which is a rental sample, not a census. It is on the page because it is the only per-suburb housing-stock signal published free, and because it genuinely differs between suburbs. Owner-occupied housing is not in it.

Why is the character-area percentage approximate?

Because measuring it exactly would mean downloading the overlay geometry, and Auckland Council’s licence terms for that layer conflict with its open-data registration. So the share is estimated by point sampling inside each suburb’s true boundaries, the sample size is printed on every page, and single-digit percentages should be read as "some of the suburb". The full method is on the sources page.

Why are some suburb pages not in the search index?

14 of the 246 suburb pages carry fewer than three of the five datasets this site joins per suburb — usually a rent median resting on a very small number of bonds, a single reported dwelling type, and no overlay record. Rather than pad them with sentences that would be true of anywhere in Auckland, they are marked noindex and left linked from this index. The data on them is still real.

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Before you compare quotes

What a repaint costs

What the data supports, and exactly where it runs out.

Special Character Areas

Where an overlay constrains a street frontage.

When you can paint

Usable painting days per month, from 30 years of records.

Get a straight answer

A short brief. The job first, your details last.