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Addington, Christchurch

14,567 council reports since June 2015, the 7th busiest suburb in the city. 11,617 photographs on record. 6,330 people at the 2023 Census, 2,182 to the square kilometre across 2.9 km².

Reports, all time
14,567
In the year to 13 Oct 2026
2,029
Busiest in Christchurch
7th
Photographs
11,617

The record also holds about $502 a week to rent 2023 Census snapshot 11,617 photographs 119 old photographs 3 schools 14 parks 5 places of worship 20 tracks 5 names on the map 13.3% of the outline mapped liquefied graded mostly TC2 in 2011 noise overlays over 56% of the outline setback strips over 1% of the outline 28% of the outline inside the plan’s density overlays 2,806 SCIRT photographs filed on this ground 24.1 km of cycleway crosses the outline 11 remembered names on this ground 20 drawn rules bind this ground 81 parcels on the dangerous-work register 40 parcels of made ground 4 parcels with a cleanup on file the 2019 model grades this ground mostly medium 51 council structures on the register 3 recreation register records 1,610 trees on the register the plan’s word on this ground 8% of the outline reserved the plan’s exceptions touch 1% of the outline 12 places on the heritage schedule 5 epicentres inside the outline 696 injury crashes 4,613 recorded victimisations 38 bus stops 207 businesses the council’s fix times alcohol ban over 44% of the outline 14 heritage places 40 documents 5 mentions on the wire

See it on the map Its decade, charted

Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day

$502/week middle half $371–$563

New bonds here ran at about $502 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter, the middle half of them between $371 and $563, across 153 bonds lodged, up 21% on a year ago. That’s about $48 a week below the city’s own quarter median of $550. Tenancy Services counts these under the Addington North, Addington East, Addington West and Tower Junction areas combined, approximately this suburb.

By dwelling type and bedrooms, April–June 2026 quarter
  • 1-bedroom house, $530 a week · 75 new bonds
  • 3-bedroom house, $570 a week · 15 new bonds
  • room in a shared house, $238 a week · 12 new bonds
  • 4-bedroom house, $530 a week · 9 new bonds
  • boarding-house room, $240 a week · 6 new bonds
  • 1-bedroom flat/unit, $102 a week · 6 new bonds

Median and quartiles of weekly rents on new private bonds, by quarter; suburb figures are a bond-weighted blend of the areas. New bonds are fresh lodgements, not the whole rental stock; under five bonds the rent is withheld, and counts are randomly rounded. Source: Tenancy Services rental bond data: provisional while the bond system migrates.

The ground: the February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over 13% of it; the 2011 grading filed it mostly TC2, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.

Day to day it holds 3 schools, 14 parks, 5 places of worship, 20 tracks and 38 bus stops, each is counted further down.

Lately the record’s mostly graffiti & vandalism, 2,029 reports in the year to 13 October 2026, the newest 13 October 2026.

One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 3 November 2024, 51 reports in a single day.

2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here

People
5,682
Occupied households
2,271

About 5,682 people and 2,271 occupied private households in the “Tower Junction”, “Addington North”, “Addington West” and “Addington East” areas, grouped from 42 SA1 areas. Several statistical areas are combined here, so this is a grouped proxy rather than a count for one suburb boundary.

Stats NZ’s 2023 Census uses fixed random rounding to base 3. Unavailable or confidential cells are left out, not treated as zero. individuals · households · geography · CC BY 4.0.

About the suburb

Addington is a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand. It is sited 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) south-west of the city centre.

the encyclopaedia’s version · Wikipedia · population: Stats NZ 2023 Census SA2 counts; the area is measured from the suburb outline

As reported 11,617 on record

424 Selwyn St362 Selwyn Street, Addington15 Bernard St336A Selwyn St292 Lincoln Road, Addington294 Lincoln Road, Addington 11,617 photographs
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The suburb, back then 119 in the archive

Garden city of the Dominion. Leaves 25 to 26Christchurch, New Zealand : a pictorial souvenir of the Dominion's garden city, 1917Addington Railway Workshops, Christchurch, 1898Addington Railway Workshops, Christchurch, 1898Addington Railway Workshops, Christchurch, 1898Addington Railway Workshops, Christchurch, 1898Addington Railway Workshops, Christchurch, 1898Addington Railway Workshops, Christchurch, 1898New Zealand's Third Contingent for South Africa: View of camp at Addington, Christchurch, 1900The Third Contingent: Roll call at the Addington camp, Christchurch, 1900General view of the Addington camp near Christchurch where the southern portion of the 8th New Zealand Contingent are in training, 1902 119 photographs
from back when →

Placed by the record’s locality join or the name in its own title, a lead, not a claim each frame stood here.

The record on Addington

Lately the newest reports

Reports per year down 12% 2024→2025

What gets reported

Graffiti & vandalism 6,275
Rubbish & dumping 3,539
Roads & footpaths 2,059
Water & drains 1,149
Trees & parks 911
Vehicles & parking 374
Everything else 214
Animals & pests 32 Noise 14

Streets that keep coming up each a street page

Every street the archive knows in Addington →

Exactly what people say

How fast the council fixes things here 15,196 finished jobs on record

The median council work order pinned in Addington took 3 days to resolve, the city-wide median is 3 days, so this ground runs faster than the city as a whole. The slowest tenth waited 8 weeks or longer. 258 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 13 November 2019.

Work orders, not the resident reports above, the council’s MyCouncilTicket stream, and one job can appear in both. A median counts only finished jobs; open ones are named as open, never averaged in. The ticket roll · the whole city’s fix times.

Alcohol rules on this ground one ban zone reaches in

Addington. A public drinking ban, on New Zealand Trotting Cup Day (the second Tuesday in November each year) from 9am to 10pm, covers about 44% of Addington.

3 sensitive sites stand here, Addington Te Kura Taumatua, Sacred Heart Girls' College, The Salvation Army Bridge, and the Local Alcohol Policy restricts new off-licences within 200 m of them.

The council’s bylaw zones and the Local Alcohol Policy’s buffer list, read from the Regulatory open-data service. A ban rules drinking in public places; it says nothing about whether a premises may sell, that is the licence register’s job.

The suburb today

Schools here 3

Zoned for Addington Te Kura Taumatua · Christchurch Adventist School · Hillview Christian School · Sacred Heart School (Christchurch) · St Thomas of Canterbury College · Te Kura Tuarua o Horomaka Hillmorton High School · and 8 more zones, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.

Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws from, not how well it teaches.

The green here 14

The first eight of 14, Parks and reserves in the council’s open data, a park lands in the suburb its centre falls inside. The whole roll is at /parks.

Where the suburb worships 5

Places of worship in the open map’s record, one lands in the suburb its building stands in. The whole roll is at /worship.

The tracks through here 20

The first eight of 20, Tracks in the council’s open data, a line belongs to every suburb it passes through. The whole network is at /tracks.

The names on this ground 5

The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 13.3% of this outline, about 38 hectares. A patch is a footprint, not a finding about an address; the count for the whole city is at /liquefaction.

The 2011 grading filed 2.3% of this outline, about 7 hectares, mostly TC2. A graded area files under the suburb its middle sits in, and a category is a verdict for a patch of ground, not a finding about an address; the grades are drawn at /technical-categories.

81 parcels inside this outline sit on the hazardous-activities register, mostly vehicle refuelling, service and repair, chemical manufacture, application and bulk storage, mineral extraction, refining and reprocessing, storage and use, 54 still doing the work. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.

The files record 40 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 11 hectares, mostly gravel, silt, engineered fill, 1 carry fill the file can’t vouch for. A record is the file’s word on what was laid, not a fresh survey; the whole layer is drawn at /fill.

4 parcels inside this outline carry a cleanup on the file, 1 marked verified. A cleanup on the file is the register’s word, not a clearance; the whole register is drawn at /remediated.

The 2019 liquefaction study put 89% of this outline in the medium class. A class is the model’s verdict on a patch of ground, not a finding about an address; the whole study is drawn at /vulnerability.

The council’s structure register stands 51 assets on this ground, 23 sets of steps, 12 shelters, 7 ramps, 5 bridges, sited at Addington Sports Stadium & Gro, Rugby League Park, Baxters Drain, Ruskin Reserve. The register’s site names are its own labels for the ground an asset stands in; the layer is drawn at the map.

The recreation register keeps 3 records inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 1 basketball, 1 football, 1 lacrosse. Seasons and surfaces are the register’s record, not this week’s draw; the layer is drawn at the map.

The register counts 1,610 living trees inside this outline, 32 veterans among them, 31 carrying a protection, mostly Kowhai, Pin Oak, Ribbonwood. The file remembers 743 trees felled here. A tree record is the register’s word on what stands or stood; the whole canopy is drawn at /trees.

The plan files 29% of this outline under Medium density residential zone, 29% residential, the rest mostly Transport 23%, Open Space Metropolitan Facilities 12%. A zone is a permission, not a description, the mix is read from a sampled join of the plan’s polygons; the whole district is drawn at /zones.

The plan reserves about 24 hectares of this outline, 8%, under 6 designations, mostly movement, power & signal, learning. A designation is a claim on the ground, not a build date, the mix is read from a sampled join; the whole register is drawn at /designations.

The plan’s exceptions touch 1% of this outline, 1 qualifying matter, mostly residential. A matter narrows how the density rule applies, it does not forbid; the mix is read from a sampled join, and the cultural-significance areas are the plan’s own unnamed ones. The whole register is drawn at /matters.

The plan’s heritage schedule protects 12 places by name in this suburb, 5 graded highly significant, Addington Cemetery and Setting, Church of St Mary the Virgin and Setting, Church Square and Setting among them. A setting is the ground the item stands in, each files under the suburb holding its centroid; the whole schedule is at /heritage.

No high-hazard flood area covers this outline. The broader flood-management watch covers 1% of it, Bells Creek. Shares read from a sampled join; a model’s map, not a promise. The waiting water is drawn at /flood-hazard.

The plan’s noise overlays cover 56% of this outline, about 162 hectares across 2 mapped overlays, and inside the airport’s bird-strike buffer. Shares read from a sampled join; a planning line, not a meter’s reading. The quiet lines are drawn at /noise.

The plan’s water-margin layers cross this outline, 36 classified reaches, the plan calling Jacksons Creek Upper and Baxter Creek by name, 1% of it inside the setback strips, the widest holding 7 m off the bank. The margin is the plan’s drawing, not a survey of the bank; the reaches, strips and held edges are mapped at /water-margin.

The plan’s allowed shape holds this outline, 28% of it inside the residential overlays, the densest standing Medium Density, inside the central city’s walking catchment. The shape is the plan’s permission, not a survey of what stands; the allowed shape is drawn at /density.

The rebuild’s cameras filed 2,806 photographs on this ground, 2010–2017, wastewater work mostly. Each frame is a receipt the dig left behind, a work log, not a survey of what stands now; the whole record is drawn at /rebuild.

The pedal network threads this ground, 24.1 km of cycleway crosses the outline, 3.9 km of it separated from the traffic, Little River Link, Northern Line, Quarryman's Trail, South Express. A segment counts under every suburb its path enters; the whole network is drawn at /cycleways.

The remembered names stand on this ground, 11 inscribed plaques, Ruskin Reserve, Baxters Drain, Disraeli Reserve among the grounds. The plaque is the register’s pin, not a surveyed spot; the whole roll is kept at /plaques.

The rulebook binds this ground, 20 drawn instruments, 5 of them dog rules, 6 alcohol bans, 2 camping zones, a certified self-contained van can stay the night at Christchurch Urban Restricted Area; the other zone bans it outright, 7 bottle-store buffers; the outline sits inside the takiwā of Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga. The bylaw is the instrument, this the map of it, the whole rulebook is drawn at /rules.

GeoNet’s catalogue puts 5 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M3.7 in 2010. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking here; the whole catalogue is counted at /sequence, the live record is /quakes, and the story in plain language is the earthquakes explainer.

The named waterways, bays, headlands, monuments, summits and old sites OpenStreetMap puts inside this outline, a pin is the mapper’s own; a waterway belongs to every suburb it crosses. Every roll, counted: /geography.

The crash record 696 injury crashes

696 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Addington's outline, 9 people killed, 138 seriously hurt.

The corner that keeps appearing: Moorhouse Avenue at Selwyn Street, 37 injury crashes.

the suburb’s crashes on the map →

The crime record 4,613 recorded victimisations

4,613 victimisations on the Police record inside Addington’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 203 a year per 1,000 residents. Up 2% on the year before. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.

the suburb on the crime map →

The buses through it 38 stops

38 Metro stops inside Addington's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 120, route 7, route 60, route 140, the Orbiter (anticlockwise), the Orbiter (clockwise).

Every route in the record →

Businesses here 207 in the directory

207 premises in Addington across 70 kinds, from OpenStreetMap, the council’s licensed-premises register and its 2024 Find Christchurch directory. Each kind below opens at this suburb’s shelf.

Among them, the ones the record says most about:

The whole directory →

Before any of that

On the register here

  1. 14 Wise Street5/14 Wise Street
  2. Addington Cemetery and Setting410 Selwyn Street
  3. Church of St Mary the Virgin and Setting21A Church Square
  4. Church of St Mary the Virgin Belltower and Setting
  5. Church of St Mary the Virgin Lychgate and Setting
  6. Church Square and Setting21A Church Square
  7. Dwelling and Setting383 Selwyn Street
  8. Dwelling and Setting389 Selwyn Street
  9. Dwelling and Setting391 Selwyn Street
  10. Dwelling and Setting13 Spencer Street
  11. Former Addington Gaol, Wall and Setting15/336 Lincoln Road
  12. Former Addington Railway Workshops Water Tower and Setting66H Clarence Street
  13. Former West Christchurch School/Hagley Community College and Setting510E Hagley Avenue
  14. Hagley Park

The register’s own page for Addington →

Documents 40

What the archive’s sources say about Addington, titled for it, turned up by a search for one of its places, or carrying its name in the text. These are leads and citations: the originals live at the provider, linked from each row.

Addington Cemetery planHistorical plan of Addington cemetery showing cemetery layout and plot numbers. Furthest right hand row showing plots 1680-1683…Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries ·
Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 09 March 1859)…he undersigned christopher george hodgson and charles ferrers knyvetfc as sheeparlners at addington station in the district of amuri in the province of neison hasthis day been dissolve hy mutual conse…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Lyttelton Times, 07 May 1859)five pounds reward lost on monday april 18 between addington and liurunui a black and tan sheep dog answers to the name of chevy the above reward will be given t…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Photograph, Francis Stevens…den name was either Galliot or Daniels. Frances (also known as Emma) was born in 1843 in Paddington, London, England. In 1849 she immigrated to Australia in a journey fraught with danger, from hunger…NZmuseums · Te Hikoi Museum · Te Hikoi Museum ·
Photograph, Captain William Stevens and Frances Emma Stevens.…f rabbits) and soon after married Francis Emma Galliot. Frances had been born in 1843 in Paddington, London, England. In 1849 she immigrated to Australia in a journey fraught with danger, from hunger…NZmuseums · Te Hikoi Museum · Te Hikoi Museum ·
Photograph, Captain William Stevens…s) and soon after married Francis Emma Daniels Galliot. Francis had been born in 1843 in Paddington, London, England. In 1849 she immigrated to Australia in a journey fraught with danger, from hunger…NZmuseums · Te Hikoi Museum · Te Hikoi Museum ·
DEATHS. (Lyttelton Times, 05 April 1862)…he lato f withorby esq agod 3 years smithfeb 10 at east taieri otago of brain fever henry addington smith only son of mr h a smith of christehureh aged 21 fosterfeb 19 at rangiorav mr t w foster aged…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF HEATHCOTE—CLAIMS TO VOTE.—IB 62. (Lyttelton Times, 12 April 1862)…wley joseph shand chasw scott david scott henry arthur silk alfred silk edwin smith henry addington freehold freehold freehold gentleman freehold freehold freehold freehold 1 freehold rural sections u…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH.—CLAIMS TO VOTE—IB 62. (Lyttelton Times, 12 April 1862)…edward seager henry fowler shackleton john ward slater francis slater william smith henry addington soulsby christopher percy stanley john stedman silas stilwell stansell john brough strouts frederick…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 16 April 1862)…r glenthorne lake coleridge freehold section 3584 on lake coleridge h j coote smith henry addington colombo street christchurch freehold amesbury section no 377 john elvines tancred henry john christc…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The wire on Addington 5 lately

Celebrate Oktoberfest at Addington Raceway, see a drag parody of Hocus Pocus, explore 20 years of McLeans Forest, or catch a free night of live music at a voter enrolment gig.The Press · Nicole Mathewson ·
Dicots seen — Addington, Christchurch, New ZealandiNaturalist · meurkc ·
Addington Raceway eyes old stadium site for major housing, hospitality developmentThe news · The Press ·
Christchurch’s Georgia Waddington prepares for Miss Universe world stageThe news · Chris Lynch Media ·
This will be my first time going to the Friday races at Riccarton. I have been to Addington Cup day a number of times. Is the dress code similar? Do I need to wear a pretty dress? Is a facinator on…r/chch · asyouwishbuttercup12 ·

The whole wire →

333 more documents came up in searches for Addington's places and have not been read yet, a lead is a search result, not a fact, until somebody reads it.

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Questions, answered briefly

What is Addington?

Addington is a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand. The public record holds 14,567 council reports for it, the first filed in June 2015.

How many people live in Addington?

6,330 people at the 2023 Census, 2,182 per square kilometre across 2.9 km².

How many people does the 2023 Census count for Addington?

About 5,682 people and 2,271 occupied private households (combined SA2s): grouped from Stats NZ SA1 areas through this site’s suburb join. Indicative, not a LIM.

What gets reported in Addington?

14,567 reports on record, most often graffiti & vandalism (6,275), rubbish & dumping (3,539), roads & footpaths (2,059). 2,029 of them in the year to 13 October 2026.

How many crashes has Addington had?

696 injury crashes on the police record inside the suburb’s outline, 9 people killed, 138 seriously hurt. The suburb’s crashes, mapped →

Did earthquakes strike under Addington?

GeoNet’s catalogue puts 5 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside the suburb’s mapped outline since the September 2010 mainshock, the biggest a M3.7 in 2010. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking felt here. The whole sequence, counted → · The story, in plain language →

Every suburb in Christchurch → · Its decade, charted → · the whole A–Z →