Suburb rent · Darfield, Selwyn

What it costs to rent in Darfield

The normal flat in Darfield rents for about $520 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.

120 rental propertiesUpdated Jan 2026

120

Rental properties

$520/wk

Most pay $490 to $565

Normal flat

-8.8% in a year

+34%

Growth, 10 years

+3% a year

+24%

Growth, 5 years

+4.4% a year

Rent data: MBIE bond data (CC BY 4.0). Latest period Jan 2026. Typical rent for Darfield is exact.

How Darfield compares

vs Selwyn

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

Rent growth, 10 years

Rent in Darfield grew 34% over 10 years, against Selwyn’s 36%.

That is 2 points slower than Selwyn as a whole.

Rent over time

15 years

Fifteen years of Darfield rent from government bond records. The line is what the normal flat rents for; the band shows the range most people pay.

$520/wknormal flat, 2026
$200$300$400$500$600$700
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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