Lower Hutt City

Lower Hutt is the broad valley floor at the bottom of the Hutt River, and Petone is its beating heart: Jackson Street’s heritage shopfronts, a foreshore made for a walk, and an ongoing, unwinnable argument about who does the region’s best fish and chips. The science institutes out at Gracefield keep the brainpower local.

It’s a real mix, suburban streets, industrial pockets, riverside spots and hill suburbs, sitting just across the harbour from Wellington with the train and motorway linking the two. For families wanting more house and section than the capital’s hills allow, the Hutt has long been the sensible answer.

There are 42 suburbs across the city. This page puts them together so you can compare without guessing: who lives where, what you’ll pay, how the schools rate, and which streets sit closest to the train, the river or the work.

Petone charm, valley space and the capital next door. Have a browse and see where you’d land.