Pelorous Sounds is a suburb which lies within the Territorial Authority of Marlborough, one of 36 residential suburbs which form the wider region. Pelorous Sounds is the 34th largest suburb of Marlborough in terms of the total number of residential housing stock. Pelorous Sounds provides a range of housing stock, with the earliest residential housing recorded in the area constructed between 1980 - 1989. The majority of the residential housing stock in the locality was constructed between 1980 - 1989. Residential housing stock in Pelorous Sounds is made up of primarily standard residential housing property types with a small proportion of purpose built residential rental housing and lifestyle properties.