Heatmaps of housing outcomes
Our heatmaps of housing outcomes offer a high-level overview of the housing situation across Aotearoa New Zealand, showing how towns and cities are performing relative to each other and other specific benchmarks.
How to use the heatmaps
The heatmaps should be used as a starting point for further analysis, alongside other information, such as local context, knowledge and relationships. Used alone, they can’t help to make decisions about what needs to be done, or where and how it needs to happen.
The heatmaps compare places based on measures of:
- severe housing deprivation, which includes rough sleeping, overcrowding and temporary accommodation
- rental stress
- home ownership affordability.
Rate of severe housing deprivation per 10,000 people
This map illustrates the proportion of people experiencing severe housing deprivation by city or district council.
Areas in red shades have higher proportions of deprivation and areas in blue shades show have lower proportions of deprivation. Data is from Census 2018.
Percentage of the median household income required to afford a median market rent
This map illustrates what proportion of the median household income would need to be spent in different city or district councils to afford a median-priced rental.
The median household income is based on a variety of sources provided by Statistics New Zealand. Market rent is based on the cost of recently lodged rental bonds, rather than the full rental stock.
This chart is based on an experimental data series used to indicate rent stress. Because of the experimental nature of these statistics there will be differences between the median rent and sales price calculated by Te Tūāpapa Kura Kāinga – Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and other published sources.
Red shades indicate lower levels of affordability, and blue shades higher. Data is from March 2021.
Number of years of savings on the median household income to purchase a median-priced house
This map illustrates how many times the annual median household income a median priced house would cost in different territorial authorities.
This chart is based on an experimental data series used to indicate purchase affordability. It uses data from a variety of Statistics New Zealand sources, as well as house sale price data from CoreLogic.
Because of the experimental nature of these statistics there will be differences between the median rent and sales price calculated by HUD and other published sources.
Red shades indicate lower levels of affordability, and blue shades higher. Data is from March 2021.