Auckland's $582,000 median house price is below many of world's big cities but low wages make it a bigger ask.
It would take 19 median incomes in Auckland to buy a home for the city's median house price.
Property in some of the world's biggest cities cost a lot more than in our biggest city, but Auckland wages make it much harder to get on the property ladder.
In the 1,119,195 Census forms filled out for Auckland, the median annual income was $29,600, a Herald analysis found.
That's almost 20 times less than the Real Estate Institute's median house price figure of $582,000.
In London it takes 11 annual average incomes to reach the average house price of $777,000, and 13 in Vancouver and Sydney - with average house prices of $687,000 and $791,970.