Suburb rent · Taumarunui, Ruapehu

What it costs to rent in Taumarunui

The normal flat in Taumarunui rents for about $419 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.

555 rental propertiesUpdated Jan 2026

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Rental properties

~$419/wk

Most pay $400 to $475

Approximate normal flat

-8.9% in a year

+118%

Growth, 10 years

+8.1% a year

+31%

Growth, 5 years

+5.5% a year

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

How Taumarunui compares

vs Ruapehu

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

Rent growth, 10 years

Rent in Taumarunui grew 118% over 10 years, against Ruapehu’s 105%.

That is 13 points faster than Ruapehu as a whole.

Rent over time

15 years

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

~$419/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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