Aranui, Christchurch
4,003 council reports since June 2015, the 38th busiest suburb in the city. 3,456 photographs on record. 4,520 people at the 2023 Census, 2,004 to the square kilometre across 2.3 km².
The record also holds about $550 a week to rent· 2023 Census snapshot· 3,456 photographs· 2 old photographs· 1 school· 9 parks· 1 civic facility· 7 places of worship· 1 marae· 5 tracks· 2 names on the map· 82.1% of the outline mapped liquefied· graded mostly TC3 in 2011· the record drew water over 2% of the outline· the mapped tsunami reach covers 17% of the outline· the Ngāi Tahu schedule covers 1% of the outline· ecological sites over 1% of the outline· landscape schedules over 1% of the outline· high flood hazard over 3% of the outline· setback strips over 2% of the outline· 4% of the outline inside the plan’s density overlays· 2,345 SCIRT photographs filed on this ground· 3.7 km of cycleway crosses the outline· 3 remembered names on this ground· 9 drawn rules bind this ground· 9 parcels on the dangerous-work register· 92 parcels of made ground· 1 parcels with a cleanup on file· the 2019 model grades this ground mostly medium· 1 council structure on the register· 11 recreation register records· 947 trees on the register· the plan’s word on this ground· 2% of the outline reserved· the plan’s exceptions touch 7% of the outline· 2 epicentres inside the outline· 130 injury crashes· 1,130 recorded victimisations· 5 bus stops· 14 businesses· the council’s fix times· 40 documents· 5 mentions on the wire
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Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day
$550/week
middle half $500–$570
New bonds here ran at about $550 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter, the middle half of them between $500 and $570, across 15 bonds lodged, down 4% on a year ago. That’s in line with the city’s own quarter median of $550. Tenancy Services counts these under the “Aranui” statistical area, close to this suburb’s outline, not exactly it.
By dwelling type and bedrooms, April–June 2026 quarter
- 3-bedroom house, $550 a week · 9 new bonds
Median and quartiles of weekly rents on new private bonds, by quarter. 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 82% of it; the 2011 grading filed it mostly TC3, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.
Day to day it holds 1 school, 9 parks, 1 civic facility, 7 places of worship, 1 marae, 5 tracks and 5 bus stops, each is counted further down.
Lately the record’s mostly rubbish & dumping, 474 reports in the year to 12 October 2026, the newest 11 October 2026.
One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 26 September 2017, 38 reports in a single day.
2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here
About 4,290 people and 1,443 occupied private households in the “Aranui” statistical area, grouped from 28 SA1 areas. This exact statistical-area match is close to this suburb’s outline, not exactly it.
More of the 2023 Census
- Born overseas15% of stated birthplace
- European ethnicity66% of ethnicity responses
- Māori ethnicity32% of ethnicity responses
- Pacific Peoples ethnicity18% of ethnicity responses
- Asian ethnicity6% of ethnicity responses
- Households with internet70% of stated households
- Households with two or more vehicles42% of stated households
Ethnicity is a multiple-response measure, so those percentages are not meant to add to 100%.
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
Aranui is one of the eastern suburbs of Christchurch. It is a low socio-economic area. In its early years, Aranui grew along Pages Road, the suburb's main road. Aranui soon became a working-class suburb. There are also areas of light-industrial premises in Aranui.
As reported 3,456 on record
The suburb, back then 2 in the archive
Placed by the record’s locality join or the name in its own title, a lead, not a claim each frame stood here.
The shape of it outline © OpenStreetMap · recent reports, pinned
The record on Aranui
- Aranui enters the written record on 23 September 1869, “Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 23 September 1869)”, Papers Past.
- “Aranui” appears somewhere in 129 of the archive’s records, title, description or body.
- A Papers Past search for the name surfaced 30 records, leads by provenance, not by phrase.
- The first report the feed ever carried here: roading/streets, 16 June 2015, at 55.
- Its busiest day on record was 26 September 2017, 38 reports in a single day.
- The street that keeps coming up is Breezes Road, reported on 262 separate days.
- For elections the suburb’s centre falls inside Burwood ward, the Coastal-Burwood-Linwood community board is its local layer. The whole roll is at /wards.
Lately the newest reports
Water General390 Pages Road
so my neighbours got chickens hard against our fence line , the house roof water goes straight in the coop ... we have flies and stink please help blows flies…
Graffiti on a fence, building or structureWainoni Park 31 Hampshire Street
graffiti on a cabinet. no identifying marks so don't know what it is.
Street Cleaning3 Basingstoke Street
Some lowlife seems to have gone round chucking glass onto the road. There is a pile of what looks like smashed wine glasses on Basingstoke street near the…
Reports per year down 9% 2024→2025
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470
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354
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What gets reported
Exactly what people say
How fast the council fixes things here 6,231 finished jobs on record
The median council work order pinned in Aranui 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 9 weeks or longer. 109 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 1 February 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 sensitive site stands here, St James School, and the Local Alcohol Policy restricts new off-licences within 200 m of it.
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 1
- St James School (Aranui)Contributing · decile 1 · EQI 501
Zoned for Christchurch Adventist School · Haeata Community Campus · Hillview Christian School · Marian College · Middleton Grange School · St James School (Aranui) · and 2 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 9
- Wainoni ParkSports ground · 6 ha · playground, 82 pieces
- Farnborough Reserve2 ha
- Delamare Park1 ha · playground, 29 pieces
- Jack Hinton Reserve
- Aranui Playgroundplayground, 35 pieces
- Woodlands Playgroundplayground, 3 pieces
- Carisbrook Playgroundplayground, 7 pieces
- Rosanna Reserveplayground, 17 pieces
The first eight of 9, 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.
The civic shelf 1
- Aranui LibraryLibrary · 109 Aldershot St, Aranui, Christchurch 8061
Libraries, halls, cemeteries and the rest in the council’s open data, a facility lands in the suburb its point or centre falls inside. The whole shelf is at /facilities.
Where the suburb worships 7
- Aranui C3 Churcha place of worship · 65 Hampshire Street
- Aranui Seventh-Day Adventist Churcha Seventh-day Adventist church · 457 Pages Road
- Breezes Road Baptist Churcha Baptist church · 153 Breezes Road
- Ekalesia Au Uso Kerisiano Samoaa Brethren church · 105A Marlow Road
- Saint Ambrose's Anglican Church - Aranuian Anglican church · 309 Breezes Road
- Saint James Catholic Church - Aranuia Catholic church · 8 Sandown Crescent
- The Salvation Army - Aranuia Protestant church · 34 Portsmouth Street
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 marae standing here 1
- Ngā Hau e Whā National Maraethe city’s marae · wharenui Aoraki · 250 Pages Road
Marae in the region’s roll, a marae stands where it stands; the join names the suburb the roll files it under. The whole roll is at /maraes.
The tracks through here 5
- Walk and bike track through Aranui2.4 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Aranui1.8 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Aranui1.7 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Aranui1.2 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Aranui574 m · Christchurch · walk · bike
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 2
The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 82.1% of this outline, about 185 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 151.8% of this outline, about 342 hectares, mostly TC3, with TC3 229 ha · TC2 113 ha. 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.
The flood record drew water over 1.9% of this outline, across 2 named events. A patch is one event’s observation, not a live hazard finding; the whole record is drawn at /floods.
The mapped tsunami extent covers 17% of this outline, about 39 hectares. The sea’s modelled reach, not a prediction, the plan’s inundation line, not the evacuation zones; the share is read from a sampled join. The whole extent is drawn at /tsunami.
9 parcels inside this outline sit on the hazardous-activities register, mostly chemical manufacture, application and bulk storage, vehicle refuelling, service and repair, 3 still doing the work. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.
The files record 92 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 19 hectares, mostly sand, gravel, compacted hardfill, 2 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.
1 parcel inside this outline carries 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 57% of this outline in the medium class, and 5 assessed areas here carry the free-face flag for possible lateral spreading. 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 1 asset on this ground, 1 bridge, sited at Bexley Park. 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 11 records inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 4 tag football, 3 basketball, 2 rugby league, 1 skateboard. Seasons and surfaces are the register’s record, not this week’s draw; the layer is drawn at the map.
The register counts 947 living trees inside this outline, 6 carrying a protection, mostly Manna Ash, Kowhai, Caucasian Ash. The file remembers 680 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 67% of this outline under Residential Suburban, 71% residential, the rest mostly Transport 17%, Open Space Community Parks 6%. 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 4 hectares of this outline, 2%, under 3 designations, mostly movement, 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 7% of this outline, 1 qualifying matter, mostly infrastructure. 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 schedule of sites significant to Ngāi Tahu covers 1% of this outline, ngā tūranga tūpuna, ngā wai. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a catalogue. The whole schedule is drawn at /cultural.
The plan’s ecological schedules cover 1% of this outline across 1 scheduled site, all protected under Schedule A. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a survey. The whole ledger is drawn at /ecology.
The plan’s landscape schedules cover 1% of this outline across 1 scheduled area. Shares read from a sampled join; a protection overlay, not a ranking of views. The kept view is drawn at /landscape.
The plan’s flood map draws 3% of this outline inside high flood hazard ground, about 7 hectares across 3 mapped areas. The broader flood-management watch covers 39% of it, Avon River. Shares read from a sampled join; a model’s map, not a promise. The waiting water is drawn at /flood-hazard.
The plan’s water-margin layers cross this outline, 7 classified reaches, the plan calling Knights Drain and Avon River by name, 2% of it inside the setback strips, the widest holding 30 m off the bank, and an esplanade line holds a public edge here. 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, 4% of it inside the residential overlays, the densest standing Suburban. 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 2,345 photographs on this ground, 2011–2017, 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, 3.7 km of cycleway crosses the outline, Te Ara Ōtākaro Avon River Trail. A segment counts under every suburb its path enters; the whole network is drawn at /cycleways.
The remembered names stand on this ground, 3 inscribed plaques, Unification, Aranui Playground, Cockayne 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, 9 drawn instruments, 3 of them dog rules, 1 camping zone, a certified self-contained van can stay the night at City Coastal Restricted Zone, 5 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 2 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M4.5 in 2011. 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.
- St Heliers Stold dump
- Avon River / Ōtākarowaterway · 29.2 km
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 130 injury crashes
130 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Aranui's outline, 5 people killed, 20 seriously hurt.
The corner that keeps appearing: Pages Road at Breezes Road, 15 injury crashes, 1 fatal.
The crime record 1,130 recorded victimisations
1,130 victimisations on the Police record inside Aranui’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly burglary, about 66 a year per 1,000 residents. Down 6% on the year before. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.
The buses through it 5 stops
5 Metro stops inside Aranui's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 5.
- Pages Rd near Breezes Rd
- Pages Rd near Fir Tree Ln
- Pages Rd near Knightsbridge Ln
- Pages Rd near Rowan Ave near Pages Rd
- Pages Rd near Rowan Ave near Pages Rd
Businesses here 14 in the directory
14 premises in Aranui across 9 kinds, from OpenStreetMap, the council’s licensed-premises register and its 2024 Find Christchurch directory. Each kind below opens at this suburb’s shelf.
Before any of that
Documents 40
What the archive’s sources say about Aranui, 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.
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Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 23 September 1869)
…of a cottage apply at once to john r andrews waltham sept 22 1869 3953 gridley academy p-aranui road two doors from peterborough street pupils will re-assemble on mon day 4th october next for general…Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Timaru Herald, 06 April 1880)
…nd uf returning to meet the last train for timaru and is now prepared to make up fmunre p aranui koadi oumsichu��cn new supposed to bo m ho point district any i bakaia 1057 waitara 835 world ccoptcd o…Timaru Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Hawke's Bay Herald, 13 October 1881)
…occupied by mr r d maney and comprising mhe matuku block about 2000 jl acres freehold the aranui block about 850 acres leasehold about 17 years to run the taupara block about 600 acres leasehold about…Hawke's Bay Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Hawke's Bay Herald, 03 December 1881)
…rties of ricnaqd david maney esquire at wairoa in the blocks of land called the matuku te aranui and taupara with respect to an advertisement which appeared in the wairoa guardian on the twenty sixth…Hawke's Bay Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Otago Daily Times 14-8-1900)
…ice- 14au WiANTED, GIRL, for housework (from country preferred); no washing, no children:—Aranui, 44 Cargill street. 14au SITUATIONS WANTED. CASH ADVERTISEMENTS under this heading not exceeding Sixtee…Otago Daily Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 16 June 1906)
…icking everything new and up-to-date fay ear double specialty co time and prices as usual aranui library pubiio mssttafl thursday june 21t 730 pnj to dfc cuss central raoreation ground publt cemetery…Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
RACING IN NEW ZEALAND (Otago Witness, 19 February 1908)
…ad heat 2 time 2min 14 2-oeec maiden scurry maiora 1 auldern 2 splash 3 scratched toronto aranui harper glenganff paisano carron munga motu won all the way time 53sec telephone handicap tarina 1 the j…Otago Witness · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Class photo Aranui School Infants to Standard 1, 1914
Taken at Aranui School Christchurch 1914. My late mother Annie Phipps and 2 sisters nobody knows where. 2014 Photo Hu…2014 Photo Hunt · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries ·
TOURIST TRAFFFIC. (Poverty Bay Herald, 27 April 1911)
…it the minister speaks enthusiastically of the nevly-dibcdvered caves i titj-wnitomonamed aranui after the name of their maori discoverer who dropped on them accidentally while pigshooting they are wo…Poverty Bay Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page XIII Advertisements Column 1 (Observer, 18 December 1911)
…auckland two from wellington over and to milford sound aptly termed 2 waitomo ruakuri and aranui caves magni the finest walk in the world magni-2 ficent stalagmites and stalactites and other ficent sc…Observer · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The wire on Aranui 5 lately
Taranui (Caspian Tern) seen — Birdlings Flat 7591, New ZealandiNaturalist · william-harland ·
Taranui (Caspian Tern) seen — Christchurch City, Canterbury Region, New ZealandiNaturalist · william-harland ·
Dog euthanised after attack left young child seriously injured in AranuiThe news · Chris Lynch Media ·
Council euthanise dog that attacked child in AranuiThe news · The Press ·
Next door
Compare Aranui with Bexley · Avondale · Wainoni · New Brighton · Burwood · Dallington, same record, side by side.
Questions, answered briefly
What is Aranui?
Aranui is one of the eastern suburbs of Christchurch. The public record holds 4,003 council reports for it, the first filed in June 2015.
How many people live in Aranui?
4,520 people at the 2023 Census, 2,004 per square kilometre across 2.3 km².
How many people does the 2023 Census count for Aranui?
About 4,290 people and 1,443 occupied private households: grouped from Stats NZ SA1 areas through this site’s suburb join. Indicative, not a LIM.
What gets reported in Aranui?
4,003 reports on record, most often rubbish & dumping (1,757), graffiti & vandalism (1,215), roads & footpaths (368). 474 of them in the year to 12 October 2026.
How many crashes has Aranui had?
130 injury crashes on the police record inside the suburb’s outline, 5 people killed, 20 seriously hurt. The suburb’s crashes, mapped →
Did earthquakes strike under Aranui?
GeoNet’s catalogue puts 2 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside the suburb’s mapped outline since the September 2010 mainshock, the biggest a M4.5 in 2011. 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 →