Broadmeadows
Broadmeadows is the small, high suburb on the ridge between Khandallah and Johnsonville, 64 hectares of steep streets about 7 km from the city, with Mount Kaukau and the Skyline Walkway along its western edge.
Why people love it here
The name says meadows and the ground says otherwise. Broadmeadows was built on steeply sloping hills and it has some of the highest streets in Wellington City, with a number of houses above 300 metres. That is the whole point of the place: the streets climb, and the harbour opens up behind you as they do.
It is a compact suburb, 64 hectares and about 1,700 people at the 2023 census, and it is younger and more mixed than its neighbours: half its residents are under 37, and 42.3 percent of them were born overseas.
The street names carry on from Khandallah below: Kanpur Road, Jaunpur Crescent, Orissa Crescent, Nagpur Terrace, Rajkot Terrace, Sirsi Terrace, Nalanda Crescent and Rangoon Street. Burma Road runs the length of the suburb and was pushed through to Johnsonville in 1936.
Mount Kaukau is at the back door. One of the four tracks to the summit starts at Sirsi Terrace, and from the top the Skyline Walkway runs 18 kilometres of ridge from Churton Park to the Makara Saddle in Karori, while the Northern Walkway drops the other way towards the Botanic Garden.
The everyday things are downhill in Johnsonville: the shopping centre with its supermarket and about seventy shops, and Waitohi, which put the library, the Keith Spry Pool with its heated 25 metre indoor pool, a cafe and a kindergarten on one site in 2019.
Rāroa station on the Johnsonville Line serves Broadmeadows along with Rāroa itself, and the number 24 bus runs from the suburb through Johnsonville into the city.
Broadmeadows, counted
Stats NZ figures for the statistical area Broadmeadows, Place summaries. Population is the estimated resident population; the rest are the 2023 Census. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
The best of Broadmeadows
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What you can buy here
The 1960s and 1970s hill house
The bulk of the suburb, built as the streets were pushed up the slope.
The house on the high street
Above 300 metres, where the harbour and the ranges are the reason the house faces the way it does.
The later infill home
Newer building on the remaining sections between the older streets.
The ridge and the view
Mount Kaukau
The summit track from Sirsi Terrace, and the Skyline and Northern Walkways meeting at the top.
Johnsonville
The shopping centre, the pool and the library at Waitohi, all downhill from the suburb.
What people ask about Broadmeadows
Where is Broadmeadows?
Broadmeadows is on the hills between Khandallah and Johnsonville in Wellington's northern suburbs, about 7 km from the city centre.
How far is Broadmeadows from Wellington's city centre?
About 7 km. The number 24 bus runs through Johnsonville into the city, and Rāroa station on the Johnsonville Line serves the suburb.
What is Broadmeadows known for?
Its height, with some of the highest streets in Wellington City, and the Mount Kaukau track that starts at Sirsi Terrace.
What kind of homes are in Broadmeadows?
Mostly hill houses from the 1960s and 1970s, houses on the highest streets built around the outlook, and newer infill between them.
What schools are in Broadmeadows?
There is no school in the suburb itself, and Onslow College's home zone covers Broadmeadows and Rangoon Heights; the nearest primaries are in Khandallah and Johnsonville.
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