Paparangi
Paparangi is the 1960s suburb on the hill between Johnsonville and Newlands, ten kilometres north of the city, with Paparangi School on Beazley Avenue and Seton Nossiter Park's bush gully along its northern edge.
Why people love it here
Paparangi was built in a hurry and to a plan. The land had been Thomas Drake's farm from 1861, then part of Richard Seddon's small farms scheme from 1897, then five dairy farms between the wars. In the early 1960s Beazley Homes subdivided it and added about a hundred houses a year, and the developer named the streets after his children, so the suburb has a Cara Crescent, a Mark Avenue and a Lynda Avenue.
That gives Paparangi something the suburbs around it do not have: whole streets of houses from the same few years, on sections laid out together. Paparangi School opened on Beazley Avenue in 1968 to take the children of those first families, and it is still the suburb's primary.
The northern edge of the suburb drops into Seton Nossiter Park, thirty hectares of bush in Belmont Gully with Belmont Stream running through it and the concrete abutments of the 1885 Wellington and Manawatu Railway viaduct, once the biggest timber viaduct in the country, still standing in the regrowth. There is a way into the park from Bushland Grove, and the main track runs up the valley from Mark Avenue in Grenada Village to Colchester Crescent in Newlands.
Helston Road carries the 56 bus through the suburb to Wellington Station, the Mark Avenue extension opened in 2009 links the top of the suburb to the motorway, and Johnsonville's Waitohi library and pool are a few minutes down the hill.
Paparangi, counted
Stats NZ figures for the statistical area Paparangi, Place summaries. Population is the estimated resident population; the rest are the 2023 Census. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
The best of Paparangi
Every pick checked against its own listing on 21 September 2026.
What you can buy here
The Beazley original
The early 1960s house the suburb was built with, brick or weatherboard, on the streets named after the developer's children.
The house with the gully behind
On the northern streets backing onto Seton Nossiter Park, bush over the back fence.
The sixties house done up
The same original, extended and opened up by a later owner, which is what a lot of the suburb has become.
Sixties streets, an old gully
Seton Nossiter Park
Belmont Gully's bush and stream along the northern edge, with the 1885 viaduct abutments in the regrowth.
Beazley Avenue
The school and the streets around it, built together in the early 1960s by the developer they are named for.
What people ask about Paparangi
Where is Paparangi?
Paparangi is on the hill between Johnsonville and Newlands in Wellington's northern suburbs, about 10 km north of the city centre, with Seton Nossiter Park on its northern edge.
How far is Paparangi from Wellington's city centre?
About 10 km by road, and the 56 bus runs through the suburb on Helston Road to Wellington Station.
What is Paparangi known for?
The early 1960s Beazley Homes subdivision with its streets named after the developer's children, Paparangi School, and Seton Nossiter Park.
What kind of homes are in Paparangi?
Mostly houses from the early 1960s subdivision, many of them extended or renovated since, with some on the northern streets backing onto the bush of Seton Nossiter Park.
What schools are in Paparangi?
Paparangi School on Beazley Avenue is the primary for Years 1 to 6, and Newlands Intermediate and Newlands College are the next steps, with Newlands College listing Paparangi in its home zone.
How many properties has Jason Lange sold in Paparangi?
3 properties, from my own sale records, counting every title once. Every one is on the results page with its address. See them→
3 properties I have sold in Paparangi
From my own sale records, read 17 September 2026. Sale prices are not published here.
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