Houghton Bay is in Wellington, New Zealand, with population 1,596.
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Transport coverage adds a practical access signal. Lower deprivation supports a livability-led read.
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 Houghton Bay, not a Houghton Bay-specific sale price.
At / near its highest median rent on record
Rent trend is derived from MBIE tenancy-bond medians and excludes suburbs with too few bonds to be reliable.
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.
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Top 16% 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.
Houghton Bay is a small community in Wellington with a population of 1,596 and a median age of 37. Median personal income is $62K per year. The main ethnic groups are European, Māori, Asian. 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 1,014 in 2018 to 990 in 2023 (-2.4%), 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.
Median weekly rent in Houghton Bay is $810 (810 houses, 460 units). This represents approximately 68% of median weekly personal income.
Livability indicators for Houghton Bay: NZDep decile 3 (low deprivation (affluent)); 1 school with avg EQI 366; 25 transport stops (25 bus).
In 2026, Houghton Bay recorded 1 building approval (1 house, 0 units), up 0% year-on-year.
1 = least deprived · 10 = most deprived
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The median weekly rent in Houghton Bay is $810/wk, based on the MBIE market rent dataset. The current rent signal is income-stretched rent market.
Income-stretched rent market: Weekly rent screens at about 68% of annual income. Use this as a suburb screening signal before comparing candidates; the matching rent ranking can provide broader market context.
QuickProperty's livability signals for Houghton Bay show: Stretched, Above Average, Low. 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.