About Suburb
Aotearoa New Zealand’s most comprehensive suburb and locality guide - every suburb, every district, every region, all in one place.
What We Do
Suburb provides detailed, data-driven insights into every suburb and rural locality in New Zealand. We aggregate official government data from LINZ, Statistics NZ, and the Ministry of Education with real-world points of interest from OpenStreetMap and live weather, so you can see at a glance what it’s actually like to live, work, raise a family, or invest in any corner of Aotearoa.
Coverage at a glance
Our Data Sources
LINZ (Land Information NZ) for boundaries, Stats NZ for census and deprivation, the Ministry of Education for schools, OpenStreetMap for points of interest, OpenWeatherMap for live conditions, and Open-Meteo for climate averages.
Livability Scores
Each suburb is rated out of 100 across seven dimensions: school quality, safety, community & deprivation, public transport access, green space, amenity density, and affordability.
Community Contributions
Local residents can submit tips, suggest places, and claim business listings. All submissions are reviewed before publication.
Coverage
Every locality listed by LINZ is covered - all 16 regions, 67 territorial authorities, and 5,905 suburbs and rural localities across Aotearoa New Zealand.
What’s on every suburb page
Each of our 5,905 suburb pages brings together the same set of data fields, sourced from official datasets and refreshed regularly.
Identification & geography
Official locality name, region, territorial authority, centroid coordinates, and an interactive map.
Population & demographics
Population, household counts, and age and ethnic breakdowns from the latest Stats NZ Census.
Livability score
An aggregate score out of 100 combining school quality, safety, transport, green space, amenities, and affordability.
Deprivation indicator (NZDep2023)
Stats NZ's official socio-economic deprivation index, matched to each suburb via exact SA1 lookup with a nearest-SA1 buffer fallback for coastal and non-residential areas. Scale 1 (least deprived) to 10 (most deprived).
Schools
Every school within catchment, with roll, decile, year levels, and authority type from the Ministry of Education.
Points of interest
Cafes, restaurants, parks, sports facilities, museums, healthcare, and public transport stops within the suburb boundary and surrounding area.
Live weather
Current conditions and short-term forecast from OpenWeatherMap.
Nearby suburbs
A list of geographically adjacent localities for easy exploration.
Where our data comes from
We rely on official, openly-licensed data sources and attribute each one. No scraping of private listing sites, no opaque scores.
LINZ - Land Information New Zealand
Authoritative locality boundaries, official names, and geographic centroids via the LINZ Data Service.
Stats NZ - Statistics New Zealand
Population and demographics from the most recent Census, plus the official NZDep2023 deprivation index sourced at SA1 granularity, matched to each suburb by exact SA1 lookup with a nearest-SA1 buffer fallback for coastal and non-residential areas.
Ministry of Education
Official school directory including roll, decile, year levels, and authority for every primary, intermediate, and secondary school.
OpenStreetMap (via Overpass API)
Points of interest within a 1,500 m radius - restaurants, cafes, parks, playgrounds, sports facilities, museums, clinics, pharmacies, hospitals, bus stops, train stations, and more. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
OpenWeatherMap
Current conditions and short-range forecasts for every suburb centroid — current conditions refreshed hourly, climate averages updated annually.
Open-Meteo
Monthly climate averages (temperature, rainfall, sunshine hours) from Open-Meteo historical archive.
How we calculate the deprivation indicator
The deprivation indicator shown on each suburb page is derived from Statistics NZ’s official NZDep2023 socio-economic deprivation index, which is published at the SA1 statistical-area level (areas of roughly 100–200 residents).
For each suburb we use an exact SA1 lookup — the decile of the SA1 that contains its official LINZ centroid. For coastal and non-residential areas whose centroid falls outside any residential SA1, we fall back to the nearest SA1 with a decile (searching outward to 3 km). The decile is reported on the standard 1–10 scale (1 = least deprived, 10 = most deprived).
The indicator measures relative socio-economic deprivation, not crime statistics. It’s a useful proxy for area wellbeing but should not be read as a direct safety rating. Currently populated for 5,879 of 5,905 suburbs (the remainder are tiny offshore or water-only localities with no overlapping SA1).
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