Suburb rent · St Clair, Dunedin

What it costs to rent in St Clair

The normal flat in St Clair rents for about $605 a week, from government bond records. No one has reviewed a flat here yet, but the rent figures still tell you what living in the area costs.

585 rental propertiesUpdated Jan 2026

585

Rental properties

~$605/wk

Most pay $515 to $686

Approximate normal flat

+5% in a year

+74%

Growth, 10 years

+5.7% a year

+18%

Growth, 5 years

+3.4% a year

Rent data: MBIE bond data (CC BY 4.0). Latest period Jan 2026. St Clair spans 3 statistical areas, so the typical rent shown is approximate (a bond-weighted average).

How St Clair compares

vs Dunedin

How rent here measures up against the wider city, so you can tell whether St Clair is dearer, cheaper, or rising faster than Dunedin as a whole.

Rent growth, 10 years

Rent in St Clair grew 74% over 10 years, against Dunedin’s 79%.

That is 5 points slower than Dunedin as a whole.

Rent over time

15 years

Fifteen years of St Clair rent. The tilde (~) marks figures that are a close estimate, because St Clair is split across a few statistical areas and the rent is averaged across them.

~$605/wkapproximate normal flat, 2026

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201120182026

What the normal flat rentsWhere most rents fall

Rents jump every January because that is when most student flats sign new leases for the year, and brand new tenancies rent higher than the standing stock. The line settles back by autumn. Source: MBIE bond data.

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