Ormiston East is in Auckland, New Zealand, with population 3,351.
This page still helps with local context, but the evidence stack is too thin for a clean suburb-level call. Use nearby alternatives or compare mode before turning it into a shortlist decision.
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Monthly repayment by fixed term
A territorial-authority estimate: the Auckland median sale price on a 20% deposit and 30-year loan, against the TA median household income implied by HUD's income-to-buy ratio, at RBNZ new-mortgage rates. A market-wide guide, not a Ormiston East-specific or borrower-specific figure.
QV House Price Index for the Auckland territorial authority (monthly, Jan 2007 = 1000). A valuation-based index of price movement over time — distinct from the actual median sale price above.
Figures are for the Auckland territorial authority (as at 2026-03). New Zealand has no free suburb-level sale-price series, so these are TA-wide medians from HUD Local Housing Statistics (LINZ District Valuation Roll + Stats NZ) — a market backdrop for Ormiston East, not a Ormiston East-specific sale price.
Median individual income. NZ has no suburb-level household-income or sale-price data, so this is a personal-income benchmark, not a household-affordability measure. Distribution covers people aged 15+ with stated income; counts are randomly rounded to base 3.
8.1% of private dwellings were unoccupied on 2023 census night (holiday homes, empty rentals, and vacant stock).
3% damp (-3pp vs 2018) and 2% with visible mould larger than A4 (-1pp vs 2018).
Investor-specific data (gearing, investor concentration) is not published for NZ suburbs — the tenure trend above is the available investor signal.
Stats NZ subnational projection (2023 base, medium series) for Howick Local Board — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Earthquake exposure is the distance from Ormiston East's centre to the nearest mapped active fault (GNS Science NZ Active Faults Database) — an area estimate, not a site-specific seismic assessment. NZ's full ground-shaking model (NSHM) is not available as a queryable map layer. Flood exposure is the share of an interior sample grid falling within Auckland Council's modelled flood plains (1% annual-exceedance-probability) — an estimate, not a property-level flood certificate. NZ publishes flood data per council; coverage here is Auckland only.
Active Airbnb listings point-mapped to this suburb from Inside Airbnb (CC BY 4.0). Occupancy and revenue are estimates from Inside Airbnb's San Francisco model (review-rate proxy, minimum-stay assumption, occupancy capped at 70%) — they are gross, indicative, and not a guarantee of returns. Short-stay letting is subject to state and local regulation.
1 of 1 schools here operate published enrolment zones (catchments). Zone boundaries set eligibility — check the official source for the exact catchment. Not enrolment advice.
Top 79% most liveable of 1,902New Zealand suburbs.
Bar = this suburb's percentile · tick = typical (median) peer
Suburb-level access-density index (not an address-level walk-time score), normalised within New Zealand suburbs. Method based on the Urban Liveability Index (Higgs et al. 2019) and Walk Score — three equal-weighted domains combined with an imbalance penalty.
Bar = this suburb's percentile · tick = typical (median) peer
District-level grade across New Zealand territorial authorities, combining 5-year price growth, rental yield (district median rent vs district median price), and stability (price-to-income level + affordability trajectory) via the same three-pillar method with an imbalance penalty. New Zealand has no free suburb-level prices, so this reflects your area's territorial authority. Within-New-Zealand relative, indicative only — not financial advice.
Ormiston East is a small suburb in Auckland with a population of 3,351 and a median age of 31. Median personal income is $45K per year. The main ethnic groups are Asian, European, Pacific Peoples. Auckland population estimates moved +1.0% in the year ended June 2025, after moving +2.5% in 2024, which should be read as a broader regional movement backdrop rather than suburb-level migration precision. The resident employment base moved from 372 in 2018 to 1,788 in 2023 (+380.6%), which should be read as a census-to-census employment backdrop rather than a live jobs series. Te Waihanga's December 2025 Pipeline snapshot tracked over 12,000 NZ infrastructure initiatives, with more than 2,700 under construction and transport taking 52% of projected 2026 pipeline spend, which should be read as a broader national delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project list.
Livability indicators for Ormiston East: NZDep decile 5 (moderate deprivation); 1 school with avg EQI 393; 1 transport stop (1 bus).
In 2026, Ormiston East recorded 13 building approvals (13 houses, 0 units), down 86.5% year-on-year.
1 = least deprived · 10 = most deprived
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Ormiston East is usable as a read, though it still needs cross-checking.
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Treat current rent as a decision input, not as a guaranteed market quote.
This is a trusted coverage layer, but it is still a pinned snapshot rather than a live facility API.
It is good for stop presence and local network context, but not a guarantee that every operator or schedule is equally current.
This page stays indexable because Ormiston East still carries enough real local context to help with NZ suburb discovery. It should still be read as a lighter locality brief, not as a fully covered suburb profile.
That leaves the page relying more on Census and service context than on a stronger market read.
The lighter areas here are hospital coverage, so one sparse reading should not stand in for the whole suburb story.
Use the region hub, compare, or nearby better-covered suburbs first, before treating this as a complete market read.
The page still has enough real suburb context to remain searchable, but some market and service layers are too light for a full-confidence read.
Let this page frame the locality, then check the story against compare, the region hub, or a nearby better-covered suburb before treating it as final.
If Ormiston East feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before treating it as a full shortlist call.
pop -100 · adds rent coverage · income -$1K
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
pop +100 · adds rent coverage · income +$2K
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
QuickProperty's livability signals for Ormiston East show: Average, Moderate, Some Access. These are based on rent affordability, school EQI, NZDep deprivation index, and transport access.
Housing data comes from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ). Demographics are from Stats NZ Census 2023. Schools data uses the Ministry of Education Equity Index (EQI). The deprivation score uses NZDep2018. Transport data is sourced from GTFS feeds.
RBNZ macro data updates with each deploy. Demographics are from NZ Census 2023. School EQI scores are from the Ministry of Education latest release.