Northpark is in east Auckland, around 19 km from the CBD, between Howick (east), Botany (west) and Somerville, around the Meadowlands area.

What is Northpark designed around?

Northpark was master-planned in the 1990s around a connected network of reserves and walkways, with paths linking the suburb's loops away from main roads.

What is near Northpark?

Botany Town Centre is five minutes west, Howick village five minutes east, and the beaches at Cockle Bay and Mellons Bay around 10 minutes away.

How do I get from Auckland CBD to Northpark?

By car, around 30 to 40 minutes via the Southern Motorway and Te Irirangi Drive or Pakuranga Highway. Buses connect via Botany and Howick toward Panmure's interchange.

Which schools are in zone for Northpark?

Children living in Northpark are in zone for Botany Downs School, Our Lady Star of the Sea School (Howick), Sancta Maria College, Somerville Intermediate School, Point View School, Howick College. Living in a school's home zone gives a guaranteed right to enrol.

How do I check my school zone in Northpark?

Use the School Zone Checker on this page. Enter your address to check your school zone and see which schools you have a guaranteed right to enrol at.

Northpark, Auckland | Postcode, Population & Property Values

Living in Northpark

Northpark sits between Howick and Botany in east Auckland, around 19 km from the CBD, and it is the east's 1990s master-plan done with unusual care: a suburb of around 5,000 people designed around its own park-and-walkway skeleton, where the reserves link up, the paths actually go places, and a child can cross most of the neighbourhood without negotiating a main road, which the local parents correctly regard as the entire point.

The housing is the era's confident family stock, brick, tile, double garage, deployed along quiet loops that feed into the green network, with the suburb's small Meadowlands shopping cluster handling the daily essentials at its edge.

The surrounding kit is east Auckland's best spread: Botany Town Centre's full retail five minutes west, Howick village's cafes and character five minutes east, and the beaches of Cockle Bay and Mellons Bay inside 10 minutes for the summer schedule.

The schooling geography pulls from a strong local field, with the area's well-regarded primaries nearby and the secondary zones splitting between Howick College and Botany Downs Secondary College. Northpark is the planned east working as drawn: parks where promised, paths that connect, and the whole eastern circuit five minutes in any direction.

Is Northpark a good place to live?

Northpark is home to roughly 4,917 people across 1.4 km². On Suburb's overall livability scale, Northpark scores 65 out of 100, with a safety score of 83/100 and 9% green space.

Schools: Northpark has 36 schools in or near the suburb, spanning early-childhood through to secondary education. See the Schools tab below for the full list.

Housing: The estimated median value is around $1.45M, and weekly rent typically sits around $720.

Lifestyle: Northpark has cafés, shops and things to do nearby. The current temperature is 13.2°C. See the Weather tab for monthly averages.

Whether Northpark is right for you depends on what you’re looking for. Use the data and community tips below to decide if it suits your lifestyle, family and budget.

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Livability Breakdown

Safety83
Amenities98
Schools86
Housing Affordability26
Green space29
Community78
Transport31

Property & Economics

Est. Median Value: $1.45M
Median Weekly Rent: $720/wk
Median HH Income: $121K/yr
Pop. Growth (5yr): -1.4%
Data Year: 2023

Key Financial Indicators (NZD)

† Est. Median Value is suburb.co.nz's own estimate, modelled from available public data. We aim for accuracy, but where data is limited, estimates may be imprecise.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Northpark?: Northpark is in east Auckland, around 19 km from the CBD, between Howick (east), Botany (west) and Somerville, around the Meadowlands area.
What is Northpark designed around?: Northpark was master-planned in the 1990s around a connected network of reserves and walkways, with paths linking the suburb's loops away from main roads.
What schools serve Northpark?: Local primaries serve the area, with secondary zones splitting between Howick College and Botany Downs Secondary College; confirm boundaries with the schools.
What is near Northpark?: Botany Town Centre is five minutes west, Howick village five minutes east, and the beaches at Cockle Bay and Mellons Bay around 10 minutes away.
How do I get from Auckland CBD to Northpark?: By car, around 30 to 40 minutes via the Southern Motorway and Te Irirangi Drive or Pakuranga Highway. Buses connect via Botany and Howick toward Panmure's interchange.
Which schools are in zone for Northpark?: Children living in Northpark are in zone for Botany Downs School, Our Lady Star of the Sea School (Howick), Sancta Maria College, Somerville Intermediate School, Point View School, Howick College. Living in a school's home zone gives a guaranteed right to enrol.
How do I check my school zone in Northpark?: Use the School Zone Checker on this page. Enter your address to check your school zone and see which schools you have a guaranteed right to enrol at.

Schools & Enrolment Zones in Northpark

Schools in zone for Northpark

Children living in Northpark have a guaranteed right to enrol at these schools, based on Ministry of Education home zones.

Botany Downs School
Contributing · roll 570 · decile 9
Our Lady Star of the Sea School (Howick)
Contributing · roll 290 · decile 9
Sancta Maria College
Secondary (Year 7-15) · roll 1059 · decile 5
Somerville Intermediate School
Intermediate · roll 961 · decile 10
Point View School
Contributing · roll 622 · decile 9
Howick College
Secondary (Year 9-15) · roll 2238 · decile 8

Check your school zone

School Zone Checker

Enter your address to check your school zone in Northpark. School enrolment zones (home zones) decide which schools your child has a guaranteed right to enrol at.

Address matching is approximate and based on OpenStreetMap geocoding — confirm an exact result near a zone boundary directly with the school.

Other nearby schools

Schools close to Northpark that you may be able to enrol at under open enrolment or by application (outside your home zone).

Elim Christian College
Composite · roll 1064 · decile 7 · 0.6 km away
Botany Downs Secondary College
Secondary (Year 9-15) · roll 2001 · decile 7 · 1.7 km away
Howick Intermediate
Intermediate · roll 599 · decile 8 · 2.1 km away
Owairoa Primary School
Contributing · roll 784 · decile 9 · 2.3 km away
Cockle Bay School
Contributing · roll 728 · decile 10 · 2.4 km away
Howick Primary School
Contributing · roll 308 · decile 8 · 2.4 km away
Riverhills School
Contributing · roll 121 · decile 4 · 2.6 km away
Shelly Park School
Contributing · roll 449 · decile 10 · 2.6 km away
Elm Park School
Contributing · roll 471 · decile 5 · 2.7 km away
Pakuranga College
Secondary (Year 9-15) · roll 2273 · decile 6 · 2.8 km away
St Mark's School (Pakuranga)
Contributing · roll 199 · decile 6 · 2.8 km away
Pakuranga Heights School
Contributing · roll 476 · decile 7 · 3.2 km away
Wakaaranga School
Contributing · roll 631 · decile 7 · 3.3 km away
Willowbank School (Howick)
Contributing · roll 695 · decile 8 · 3.3 km away
Macleans Primary School
Contributing · roll 545 · decile 7 · 3.4 km away
Farm Cove Intermediate
Intermediate · roll 502 · decile 8 · 3.5 km away
Sunnyhills School
Contributing · roll 471 · decile 9 · 3.7 km away
Mellons Bay School
Contributing · roll 407 · decile 10 · 3.8 km away
Edgewater College
Secondary (Year 9-15) · roll 634 · decile 3 · 3.9 km away
Pakuranga Intermediate
Intermediate · roll 273 · decile 3 · 3.9 km away
Saint Kentigern College
Secondary (Year 7-15) · roll 2347 · decile 10 · 4.0 km away
Macleans College
Secondary (Year 9-15) · roll 3078 · 4.1 km away
Bucklands Beach Intermediate
Intermediate · roll 944 · decile 9 · 4.1 km away
Baverstock Oaks School
Contributing · roll 583 · decile 6 · 4.1 km away
Pigeon Mountain School
Contributing · roll 466 · decile 8 · 4.2 km away
Anchorage Park School
Contributing · roll 120 · decile 3 · 4.6 km away
Sancta Maria Catholic Primary School
Contributing · roll 372 · decile 5 · 4.7 km away
Mayfield School (Auckland)
Contributing · roll 283 · decile 1 · 4.7 km away
Mission Heights Primary School
Contributing · roll 663 · decile 6 · 5.0 km away
Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate Middle School
Intermediate · roll 318 · decile 1 · 5.0 km away

Rubbish & Recycling

Rubbish collection: Friday (weekly)
Recycling & organics: Friday (fortnightly, Week 2)
Next recycling: 7 August

Check your exact collection days on the Auckland Council tool →

Rubbish bin

Non-recyclable general waste. Put out every Friday.

Recycling bin

Paper, cardboard, glass bottles & jars, metal cans, rigid plastic containers. Put out every second Friday.

Food scraps bin

All food scraps and garden organics. Collected every second Friday alongside recycling.

Bin lid colours may vary in some older North Shore and Waitakere properties. The identifying colour is on the lid: rubbish (red), recycling (yellow), food scraps (green).

Collection data sourced from Auckland Council.

Explore Northpark

Things to do(7)

Hologram Zoo

Orangewood Park

Howick Croquet Club

Millhouse Reserve

Zone Bowling Botany

Xtreme Entertainment

Timezone New Zealand

Parks & green spaces(2)

Orangewood Park

Millhouse Reserve

Healthcare(5)

Millhouse Integrative Medical Centre

Millhouse Medical Centre

Millhouse Pharmacy

Chemist Warehouse

Month	High (°C)	Low (°C)	Rainfall (mm/day)	Sunshine (hrs/day)
☀️ Jan	22.9	17.53	6.59	9.94
☀️ Feb	22.71	16.52	5.64	10.36
🍂 Mar	20.72	14.26	2.61	10.12
🍂 Apr	19.74	14.32	3.26	8.67
🍂 May	17.05	11.71	4.73	7.58
❄️ Jun	15.64	10.37	3.3	7.39
❄️ Jul	14.49	8.9	3.39	7.42
❄️ Aug	14.49	7.78	2.56	8.11
🌸 Sep	16.13	10.76	3.64	9.45
🌸 Oct	17.34	11.86	3.32	10.26
🌸 Nov	19.17	13.02	3.3	10.98
☀️ Dec	21.88	15.94	4.08	11.38

Living in Northpark

Is Northpark a good place to live?

Map

Livability Breakdown

Property & Economics

Key Financial Indicators (NZD)

Nearby Suburbs

Frequently Asked Questions

Schools & Enrolment Zones in Northpark

Schools in zone for Northpark

Botany Downs School

Our Lady Star of the Sea School (Howick)

Sancta Maria College

Somerville Intermediate School

Point View School

Howick College

Check your school zone

School Zone Checker

Other nearby schools

Elim Christian College

Botany Downs Secondary College

Howick Intermediate

Owairoa Primary School

Cockle Bay School

Howick Primary School

Riverhills School

Shelly Park School

Elm Park School

Pakuranga College

St Mark's School (Pakuranga)

Pakuranga Heights School

Wakaaranga School

Willowbank School (Howick)

Macleans Primary School

Farm Cove Intermediate

Sunnyhills School

Mellons Bay School

Edgewater College

Pakuranga Intermediate

Saint Kentigern College

Macleans College

Bucklands Beach Intermediate

Baverstock Oaks School

Pigeon Mountain School

Anchorage Park School

Sancta Maria Catholic Primary School

Mayfield School (Auckland)

Mission Heights Primary School

Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate Middle School

Rubbish & Recycling

Rubbish bin

Recycling bin

Food scraps bin

Explore Northpark

🎯Things to do(7)

Hologram Zoo

Orangewood Park

Howick Croquet Club

Millhouse Reserve

Zone Bowling Botany

Xtreme Entertainment

Timezone New Zealand

🌳Parks & green spaces(2)

Orangewood Park

Millhouse Reserve

🏥Healthcare(5)

Millhouse Integrative Medical Centre

Millhouse Medical Centre

Millhouse Pharmacy

Chemist Warehouse

Dr Daniel Quistorff

Eat & Drink in Northpark

🍽️Places to eat & drink(14)

Blend

Sumthin Dumplin

Wild Bean Cafe

Sushi Sora

Bakers Delight Botany Downs

Mr Whippy NZ

Cakelicious

Things to do(7)

Parks & green spaces(2)

Healthcare(5)

Places to eat & drink(14)

Tradies & services(1)

Shops(14)

Beauty & fitness(9)

Professional services(1)