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.

210 rental propertiesUpdated Jan 2026

210

Rental properties

~$500/wk

Most pay $427 to $523

Approximate normal flat

+2% in a year

+68%

Growth, 10 years

+5.3% a year

+59%

Growth, 5 years

+9.7% a year

Rent data: MBIE bond data (CC BY 4.0). Latest period Jan 2026. Temuka spans 2 statistical areas, so the typical rent shown is approximate (a bond-weighted average).

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 68% over 10 years, against Timaru’s 62%.

That is 6 points faster than Timaru as a whole.

Rent over time

15 years

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

~$500/wkapproximate normal 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.

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