Rankings

The best retirement villages in New Zealand

Every ranking on this page is built the same way: from each village's own filed Disclosure Statement (Retirement Villages Act 2003) and published operator information, scored by a methodology you can read in full. No operator pays to appear, and no payment of any kind can change a score or a rank.

540
Villages tracked
520
Capital Back scored
47
Market median score
14
Regions ranked
Two ways to rank a village

The lifestyle, and the money

We keep the two questions separate and never blend them: Life Score ranks what living there offers; Capital Back ranks how much of the entry payment comes back to the family, on the village's own filed terms.

By region

Best retirement villages near you

The same rankings, region by region — including the villages that score highly for lifestyle but sit well below the market on Capital Back.

How these rankings work. Financial figures come from each village's statutory Disclosure Statement; lifestyle data from operator sites and Village Guide. Villages are only ranked where we hold enough data to publish a score — the rest show "No data yet" rather than a guess. Operators can review and respond to their figures before and after publication: editorial policy · Capital Back method · Life Score method.
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