The rates quoted here apply to Wellington City Council rates for 2024/2025 and include GST:
Rates for 2024/2025 (241KB PDF) | Text version (572KB RTF)
Rates are based on your property's capital value, land use and whether it receives targeted rates or is non-rateable.
This year's rates are based on the property revaluation as at 1 September 2021. This revaluation remains effective for the 2024/2025 rating year, except where subsequent maintenance valuations have been required under valuation rules or the Council’s rating policies. City-wide revaluations are performed every three years.
Changes to rateable value of Wellington properties has impacted the share of rates that each property pays.
Overall, the increase in rates is 16.9%, but some properties will have increases higher than the 16.9%, or a reduction.
Find out more about rating valuations.
Rates changes by suburb
The table below shows the median 2024/2025 Wellington City Council rates (GST inclusive) by suburb as well as the median change from last year. The data does not show the Greater Wellington Regional Council rates and sludge minimisation facility levy.
Within each suburb, there will be properties with rates higher and lower than the median for the suburb.
The data is based on rates assessed as at 19 July 2024.