Dixon Street East is in Wellington, New Zealand, with population 3,420.
This page still helps with local context, but the evidence stack is too thin for a clean suburb-level call. Use nearby alternatives or compare mode before turning it into a shortlist decision.
Transport coverage adds a practical access signal.
The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting.
Figures are for the Wellington City territorial authority (as at 2026-02). New Zealand has no free suburb-level sale-price series, so these are TA-wide medians from HUD Local Housing Statistics (LINZ District Valuation Roll + Stats NZ) — a market backdrop for Dixon Street East, not a Dixon Street East-specific sale price.
Median individual income. NZ has no suburb-level household-income or sale-price data, so this is a personal-income benchmark, not a household-affordability measure.
Top 15% most liveable of 1,714New Zealand suburbs.
Suburb-level access-density index (not an address-level walk-time score), normalised within New Zealand suburbs. Method based on the Urban Liveability Index (Higgs et al. 2019) and Walk Score — three equal-weighted domains combined with an imbalance penalty.
Dixon Street East is a small suburb in Wellington with a population of 3,420 and a median age of 27. Median personal income is $53K per year. The main ethnic groups are European, Asian, Māori. Wellington population estimates moved +0.8% in the year ended June 2024, after averaging +0.8% a year from 2018 to 2023, which should be read as a broader regional movement backdrop rather than suburb-level migration precision. The resident employment base moved from 1,998 in 2018 to 2,520 in 2023 (+26.1%), which should be read as a census-to-census employment backdrop rather than a live jobs series. Te Waihanga's December 2025 Pipeline snapshot tracked over 12,000 NZ infrastructure initiatives, with more than 2,700 under construction and transport taking 52% of projected 2026 pipeline spend, which should be read as a broader national delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project list.
Livability indicators for Dixon Street East: NZDep decile 5 (moderate deprivation); 7 transport stops (7 bus).
In 2026, Dixon Street East recorded 0 building approvals (0 houses, 0 units), down 100% year-on-year.
1 = least deprived · 10 = most deprived
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Dixon Street East is a thin local read, not a complete suburb verdict.
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This is a trusted coverage layer, but it is still a pinned snapshot rather than a live facility API.
It is good for stop presence and local network context, but not a guarantee that every operator or schedule is equally current.
This page stays indexable because Dixon Street East still carries enough real local context to help with NZ suburb discovery. It should still be read as a lighter locality brief, not as a fully covered suburb profile.
That leaves the page relying more on Census and service context than on a stronger market read.
Coverage is thinner on school matches and hospital coverage; don't let a single sparse read define the suburb.
Start with the region hub, compare view, or nearby better-covered suburbs before treating this page as a full market decision.
The page still has enough real suburb context to remain searchable, but some market and service layers are too light for a full-confidence read.
Let this page frame the locality, then check the story against compare, the region hub, or a nearby better-covered suburb before treating it as final.
If Dixon Street East feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before treating it as a full shortlist call.
pop same · adds rent coverage · income -$5K
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
pop -200 · adds rent coverage · income -$1K
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
QuickProperty's livability signals for Dixon Street East show: Moderate, Some Access, Slowing. These are based on rent affordability, school EQI, NZDep deprivation index, and transport access.
Housing data comes from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ). Demographics are from Stats NZ Census 2023. Schools data uses the Ministry of Education Equity Index (EQI). The deprivation score uses NZDep2018. Transport data is sourced from GTFS feeds.
RBNZ macro data updates with each deploy. Demographics are from NZ Census 2023. School EQI scores are from the Ministry of Education latest release.