Woodridge
Woodridge is one of the newest of Wellington's northern suburbs, laid out from the 1980s on the old Newlands dairy farm above Seton Nossiter Park, with streets named after trees and Hauora Reserve on the hilltop.
Why people love it here
Woodridge began when Norman Wright bought the Newlands dairy farm in the 1980s and started subdividing the ridge. The Wright family chose trees and wood as the theme, so the streets are Red Beech Avenue, White Pine Avenue, Cedarwood Street, Kentwood Drive and the rest, and the name of the suburb follows. About 200 homes were up by 2011, and the census counted 1,914 people in 2023, a fifth more than five years earlier, so it is still being built.
That makes Woodridge a suburb of new and nearly new houses, on a ridge with bush regrowing in the gullies on either side, and with young families in most of them.
Hauora Reserve is the hill at the top of the suburb, a grassy summit with a loop track round it marked by stone cairns and a playground on the Red Beech Avenue side. Kentwood Drive Reserve is the neighbourhood park lower down, a grassed slope with a playground and a small stream out of a bush gully, looked after by the Woodridge Planters group.
Below all of it is Seton Nossiter Park, thirty hectares of bush along Belmont Stream, reached from the top of White Pine Avenue by Lindsays Track. For town, the 52 and 57 buses run through the suburb on Kentwood Drive and down Newlands Road to Wellington Station, and the New World and the community centre in Newlands are the closest shops.
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Woodridge, counted
Stats NZ figures for the statistical area Woodridge, Place summaries. Population is the estimated resident population; the rest are the 2023 Census. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
The best of Woodridge
Every pick checked against its own listing on 21 September 2026.
What you can buy here
The first-stage house
The 1980s and 90s homes on the lower streets, the ones built when the farm was first cut up.
The family home on the ridge
The 2000s houses higher up, bigger, with the gully or the harbour from the deck.
The new build
The houses on the latest streets, still going up, which is why the suburb grew by a fifth between the last two censuses.
A hill, a gully, a young suburb
Hauora Reserve
The grassy summit with the loop track and the cairns, the highest point of the suburb.
Seton Nossiter Park
The bush and Belmont Stream below the ridge, with Lindsays Track down from White Pine Avenue.
What people ask about Woodridge
Where is Woodridge?
Woodridge is on the ridge north of Newlands and Paparangi in Wellington's northern suburbs, above Seton Nossiter Park, roughly 10 km from the city centre.
How far is Woodridge from Wellington's city centre?
Roughly 10 km by road through Newlands and the gorge, and the 52 and 57 buses run from Kentwood Drive down Newlands Road to Wellington Station.
What is Woodridge known for?
Being one of the city's youngest suburbs, built from the 1980s on the old Newlands dairy farm, with streets named after trees, Hauora Reserve on the hilltop and Seton Nossiter Park below.
What kind of homes are in Woodridge?
Houses from the 1980s onward, with the newest still being built on the latest streets; there is little here older than the subdivision.
What schools are in Woodridge?
Bellevue School in Newlands lists the Woodridge streets in its enrolment zone, and Newlands Intermediate and Newlands College are the next steps, with Newlands College listing Woodridge in its home zone.
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