Newlands
Newlands is the valley suburb on the eastern side of Ngauranga Gorge, eight kilometres north of the city, with Te Ara Paparārangi running along the harbour escarpment and Newlands College in the middle.
Why people love it here
Newlands sits in a valley between two ridgelines, and one of those ridges is the harbour escarpment, the long edge above the Hutt Road where the northern suburbs look out over the water to Petone and the Hutt Valley. Until the 1950s this was pig and dairy country that supplied most of Wellington's town milk, and the streets that replaced the farms follow the valley up from Newlands Road.
Newlands Road is the spine. The New World is at the corner of Bracken Road, the college and the intermediate are up Bracken Road behind it, and the community centre on Batchelor Street, opened in 2009 after a local push, has the toy library, the drop-in lounge and the food bank.
Te Ara Paparārangi is the walk. It runs 4.6 km along the escarpment from Waihinahina Park to Promontory Crescent, no steps, through the old-growth and regenerating bush of Gilberd Bush Reserve and below Ngā Hau e Whā o Paparārangi marae, with the harbour in view most of the way. Waihinahina Park at the top end is the old Horokiwi landfill turned into a dog park with a picnic area and the Hutt Valley laid out in front of it.
On the other side of the suburb, Seton Nossiter Park's bush gully is reached from Colchester Crescent. For town, the 52, 56, 57 and 58 buses all run down Newlands Road to Wellington Station, and Metlink's July timetable put a bus on Newlands Road about every five minutes at peak.
Newlands, counted
Stats NZ figures for the statistical area Newlands, Place summaries. Population is the estimated resident population; the rest are the 2023 Census. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
The best of Newlands
Every pick checked against its own listing on 21 September 2026.
What you can buy here
The valley home of the 1960s and 70s
The houses that replaced the dairy farms, on the streets running up from Newlands Road.
The house on the ridge
On the streets along the escarpment, with the harbour and the Hutt Valley from the windows and the walkway below.
The newer build on the northern edge
Later houses toward Bellevue and the Woodridge boundary, on the last of the farmland.
The escarpment and the road
Te Ara Paparārangi
The track along the harbour edge from Waihinahina Park to Promontory Crescent, with Gilberd Bush Reserve in the middle.
Newlands Road
The spine of the suburb, with the New World, the college, the community centre and the buses to town.
What people ask about Newlands
Where is Newlands?
Newlands is on the eastern side of Ngauranga Gorge in Wellington's northern suburbs, about 8 km north of the city centre, between Johnsonville and the harbour escarpment.
How far is Newlands from Wellington's city centre?
About 8 km by road down Newlands Road and the gorge, and the 52, 56, 57 and 58 buses run down Newlands Road to Wellington Station.
What is Newlands known for?
Te Ara Paparārangi along the harbour escarpment, Waihinahina Park, Newlands College and the community centre on Batchelor Street.
What kind of homes are in Newlands?
Family homes from the 1960s and 70s on the valley streets, houses along the ridge with the harbour in view, and newer builds on the northern edge toward Woodridge.
What schools are in Newlands?
Newlands School, Rewa Rewa School and Bellevue School are the primaries, Newlands Intermediate is the intermediate, and Newlands College on Bracken Road lists Newlands in its home zone.
How many properties has Jason Lange sold in Newlands?
5 properties, from my own sale records, counting every title once. Every one is on the results page with its address. See them→
5 properties I have sold in Newlands
From my own sale records, read 17 September 2026. Sale prices are not published here.
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