Vibrant city life and natural coastal beauty
Living in Auckland and the Hauraki Gulf offers a unique blend of vibrant city life and natural coastal beauty. Auckland provides diverse neighbourhoods, excellent schools, thriving arts and food scenes, and easy access to beaches, bush walks, and harbours.
Just offshore, the Hauraki Gulf is a marine playground dotted with islands like Waiheke, Rangitoto, and Great Barrier. Residents enjoy boating, fishing, and ferry trips to peaceful island communities, wineries, and scenic reserves.
The proximity of city and sea creates a lifestyle that balances work, leisure, and nature, making it one of New Zealand’s most desirable and dynamic regions to live. It’s a lifestyle shaped by movement, diversity, and the freedom to shift gears without leaving the city.
Life at the heart of the City of Sails
Central Auckland is a place of contrast and connection, where high-rise ambition meets harbour calm. Whether you're exploring local markets, hiking volcanic cones, or networking in the CBD, the region invites you to live fully.
Life at the heart of the City of Sails
Central Auckland is a place of contrast and connection, where high-rise ambition meets harbour calm. Whether you're exploring local markets, hiking volcanic cones, or networking in the CBD, the region invites you to live fully.
Working in Auckland Central
Te Toka Tumai Auckland provides health and disability services to more than half a million people living in central Auckland, regional services for Northland and greater Auckland, and specialist national services for the whole of New Zealand. Our main sites are Auckland City Hospital and Starship National Children's Hospital, located in central Auckland.
Auckland Central hospitals
Auckland City Hospital
Auckland City Hospital is the primary adult hospital for Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, playing a vital role in the city's healthcare system. Located centrally, it provides emergency, surgical, medical, and critical care services for the city's diverse population. As a major teaching and research hub, it supports Aucklanders with expert, specialised care.
Greenlane Clinical Centre
Greenlane Clinical Centre is a key outpatient hospital in Auckland, offering specialist care in areas like ophthalmology, dermatology, rheumatology, audiology, and women’s health. It provides day surgeries, diagnostics, and mental health support. With referral-based access, it serves as a major hub for non-urgent, specialist medical services across the city.
Starship Children's Hospital
Starship Children's Hospital is New Zealand's national centre for specialist paediatric care. Located in central Auckland, it provides advanced medical and surgical services for children, including intensive care, cancer treatment, heart surgery, and neonatal support. Designed for families, Starship offers compassionate, expert care in a child-friendly, purpose-built environment.
Healthcare services in Auckland Central
- Bowel screening
- Breast screening
- Cancer and blood (children's health)
- Cervical screening
- Gastrointestinal cancer service
- Haematology
- Haemophilia centre
- Oncology
- Radiation therapy
- Vascular (regional)
- Cardiac
- Conditions/cardiology
- Cardiothoracic and vascular intensive care and high dependency unit
- Paediatric cardiology
- Vascular (regional)
- Kaiatawhai Māori health
- Manawanui Oranga Hinengaro Māori mental health
- Te Whetu Tawera mental health unit (acute adult)
- Te Puaruruhau child protection
- Short-term accommodation and services for whānau
- Aronui Ora maternal mental health
- Assertive community outreach
- Buchanan Rehabilitation Centre
- Child and family unit
- Intellectual disability and mental illness (regional)
- Kari Centre community teams
- Kari Centre youth forensic service (regional)
- Manawanui Oranga Hinengaro Māori mental health
- Mental health (community)
- Mental health services for older people
- Psychiatry (children's health)
- Segar House intensive day programme
- Te Whetu Tawera mental health unit (acute adult)
- Mental health services for older people
- Mobility solutions
- Needs assessment and service coordination
- Older people's health
- Rehab Plus
- Rheumatology
- Seniorline national information service helping older people and their whanau navigate the health system
- Lotofale Pacific mental health
- Pacific health
Services offered by Starship Children's Health, Auckland Dental Service and other providers:
- Allied health women's and children
- Anaesthesia
- Audiology
- Blood a Cancer Centre
- Cardiac — Greenlane paediatric and congenital cardiac service
- Cardiac inherited diseases service
- Child and family unit
- Children's emergency department
- Children's therapy
- Community service
- Consult liaison psychiatry
- Day stay unit
- Dermatology
- Developmental paediatrics
- Diabetes and endocrinology
- ENT — Otorhinolaryngology
- Emergency Department
- Family information service
- Family Options NASC
- Gastroenterology and hepatology
- General paediatrics
- Immunology and allergy
- Infection prevention and control
- Infectious diseases service
- Intensive care unit (PICU)
- Kaiatawhai Maori health
- Metabolic service
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- Newborn services
- Northern Health School
- Orthopaedics
- Palliative care team
- Radiology
- Rehabilitation service
- Respiratory services
- Rheumatology
- Safekids Aotearoa
- Spine service
- Surgery and urology
- Tautai Fakataha Pacific family support service
- Te Puaruruhau child protection
- Anaesthesia
- Anaesthesia (children's health)
- Ear, nose and throat surgery
- General surgery
- Neurosurgery
- Neurosurgery (children's health)
- Orthopaedics/Bones
- Orthopaedics/Bones (children's health)
- Plastic surgery (regional)
- Surgery and urology (children's health)
- Birthcare
- Breast cancer register (regional)
- BreastScreen Aotearoa
- Cervical Screening
- Fertility PLUS
- Fetal Medicine Network
- Gynaecology
- Infertility
- Labour and Birthing Suite
- Maternal Health – National Women's Health
- Maternity/Pregnancy
- Midwives (Community)
- Midwives – high risk
Areas to live in Auckland Central
Central Auckland offers vibrant urban living in areas like Ponsonby, Parnell, and Grey Lynn, known for cafes, heritage homes, and city access. The Hauraki Gulf features lifestyle destinations like Waiheke ideal for nature lovers, with beaches, vineyards, and relaxed island communities just a short ferry ride away.