New Zealand · Rents: August 2026, provisional
Rents in Western Bay of Plenty District
The median weekly rent of the tenancies that began in Western Bay of Plenty District in August 2026 was NZ$650, from the 81 new bonds lodged with Tenancy Services for them. That is above 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Western Bay of Plenty District | NZ$650 a week | NZ$628 | NZ$573 to NZ$704 | 81 |
| 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 Western Bay of Plenty District compares
At NZ$650 a week, the median in Western Bay of Plenty District is NZ$55 (9%) above the New Zealand median of NZ$595.
Among the 43 New Zealand councils whose median is not a small sample, it shares 4th to 5th place from the top with 1 other at NZ$650, in the top tenth.
MBIE's quartiles here are NZ$573 and NZ$704; across all New Zealand new bonds they are NZ$500 and NZ$700.
The nearest rent medians among New Zealand councils
- Queenstown-Lakes District NZ$800
- Tauranga City NZ$695
- Central Otago District NZ$680
- Western Bay of Plenty District NZ$650, this page
- Auckland NZ$650
- Taupo District NZ$645
- Waipa District NZ$640
- Selwyn District NZ$640
Nearest in median rent only, not in distance or in the homes let: the file gives no council's region.
Straight about the data
What this cannot tell you
- Amounts are New Zealand dollars a week (NZ$). 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, Western Bay of Plenty District (territorial authority), 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/western-bay-of-plenty-district/