Suburb rent · Temuka, Timaru

What it costs to rent in Temuka

The normal flat in Temuka rents for about $500 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.

Browse Temuka flats126 rental propertiesUpdated Jan 2026

126

Rental properties

$500/wk

Most pay $425 to $525

Normal flat

+2% in a year

+70%

Growth, 10 years

+5.4% a year

+59%

Growth, 5 years

+9.7% a year

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

How Temuka compares

vs Timaru

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

Rent growth, 10 years

Rent in Temuka grew 70% over 10 years, against Timaru’s 62%.

That is 8 points faster than Timaru as a whole.

Rent over time

15 years

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

$500/wknormal flat, 2026

$100$200$300$400$500$600

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.