New Zealand · Rents: August 2026, provisional · Region
Rents in the Waikato Region
The median weekly rent of the tenancies that began in the Waikato Region in August 2026 was NZ$580, from the 1,089 new bonds lodged with Tenancy Services for them. That is below New Zealand's median that month, NZ$595.
Provisional MBIE says these figures are provisional while bonds move to a new system: they may be revised, and may not compare with earlier months, so no change on a year is given. They are the rents of new bonds lodged with Tenancy Services, not advertised rents, and not what sitting tenants pay.
The figures
| Area | Median rent | Geometric mean | MBIE's quartiles | New bonds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waikato Region | NZ$580 a week | NZ$554 | NZ$495 to NZ$670 | 1,089 |
| New Zealand, all bonds | NZ$595 a week | NZ$575 | NZ$500 to NZ$700 | 13,062 |
Counts are MBIE's, each rounded at random to a multiple of 3. New Zealand's figures include 1,554 bonds MBIE could not place in any council or region.
Within New Zealand only
How the Waikato Region compares
At NZ$580 a week, the median in the Waikato Region is NZ$15 (3%) below the New Zealand median of NZ$595.
Among the 16 New Zealand regions whose median is not a small sample, it shares 7th to 9th place from the top with 2 others at NZ$580, in the upper half.
MBIE's quartiles here are NZ$495 and NZ$670; across all New Zealand new bonds they are NZ$500 and NZ$700.
The nearest rent medians among New Zealand regions
- Gisborne Region NZ$610
- Otago Region NZ$600
- Hawke's Bay Region NZ$600
- Tasman Region NZ$595
- Waikato Region NZ$580, this page
- Wellington Region NZ$580
- Northland Region NZ$580
- Marlborough Region NZ$560
- Taranaki Region NZ$550
Nearest in median rent only, not in distance or in the homes let: the file gives no council's region.
Straight about the data
What this cannot tell you
- Amounts are New Zealand dollars a week (NZ$). Do not set them beside this site's Australian figures without converting, and do not add, average or rank figures across the two countries.
Every other limit, and the file's whole notice: How to read these figures.
Source
Rents
Source: The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, Tenancy Services rental bond data (August 2026), licensed under CC BY 3.0 NZ. Selected and reformatted by DwellDelta.
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/). MBIE asks to be credited as The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
MBIE's page for these figures, with their licence and its monthly files: https://www.tenancy.govt.nz/about-tenancy-services/data-and-statistics/rental-bond-data/
The file: nz-rents.json
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Cite as: Median weekly rent of new bonds, Waikato Region (region), New Zealand, August 2026 (provisional). Source: The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Via DwellDelta: https://tools.dwelldelta.com.au/area/nz/waikato-region/