Aotea is a suburb which lies within the Territorial Authority of Porirua, one of 19 residential suburbs which form the wider region. Aotea is the 4th largest suburb of Porirua in terms of the total number of residential housing stock. Aotea provides a range of housing stock, with the earliest residential housing recorded in the area constructed between 2000 - 2009. The majority of the residential housing stock in the locality was constructed between 2010 - 2019. Residential housing stock in Aotea is made up of primarily standard residential housing property types with a small proportion of purpose built residential rental housing and lifestyle properties.