Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge119 Hulverstone Drive
graffiti at our nice new avon Bridge. nearest to 378 New Brighton Road, Burwood, Christchurch 8083. defacement on both sides of main Concrete pillar at south…
Avondale, Christchurch
3,558 council reports since June 2015, the 41st busiest suburb in the city. 3,053 photographs on record. 2,600 people at the 2023 Census, 1,209 to the square kilometre across 2.2 km².
The record also holds about $600 a week to rent· 2023 Census snapshot· 3,053 photographs· 1 old photograph· 1 school· 6 parks· 10 tracks· 2 names on the map· 66.7% of the outline mapped liquefied· 27.4% of the outline in the red zone· the record drew water over 40% of the outline· the mapped tsunami reach covers 9% of the outline· the Ngāi Tahu schedule covers 8% of the outline· ecological sites over 8% of the outline· landscape schedules over 8% of the outline· high flood hazard over 11% of the outline· setback strips over 14% of the outline· 1% of the outline inside the plan’s density overlays· 2,086 SCIRT photographs filed on this ground· 12.1 km of cycleway crosses the outline· 2 remembered names on this ground· 6 drawn rules bind this ground· 7 parcels on the dangerous-work register· 131 parcels of made ground· 2 parcels with a cleanup on file· the 2019 model grades this ground mostly high· 8 council structures on the register· 6 recreation register records· 858 trees on the register· the plan’s word on this ground· 4% of the outline reserved· 4 epicentres inside the outline· 117 injury crashes· 781 recorded victimisations· 13 bus stops· 10 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
$600/week
middle half $520–$600
New bonds here ran at about $600 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter, the middle half of them between $520 and $600, across 9 bonds lodged, up 7% on a year ago. That’s about $50 a week above the city’s own quarter median of $550. Tenancy Services counts these under the “Avondale (Christchurch City)” statistical area, close to this suburb’s outline, not exactly it.
By dwelling type and bedrooms, April–June 2026 quarter
- 1-bedroom house, $600 a week · 6 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: 27% of the outline went into the residential red zone; the February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over 67% of it, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.
Day to day it holds 1 school, 6 parks, 10 tracks and 13 bus stops, each is counted further down.
Lately the record’s mostly graffiti & vandalism, 366 reports in the year to 12 October 2026, the newest 8 October 2026.
One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 27 April 2016, 33 reports in a single day.
2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here
About 2,466 people and 927 occupied private households in the “Avondale (Christchurch City)” statistical area, grouped from 16 SA1 areas. This exact statistical-area match is close to this suburb’s outline, not exactly it.
More of the 2023 Census
- Born overseas14% of stated birthplace
- European ethnicity82% of ethnicity responses
- Māori ethnicity18% of ethnicity responses
- Pacific Peoples ethnicity8% of ethnicity responses
- Asian ethnicity7% of ethnicity responses
- Households with internet83% of stated households
- Households with two or more vehicles58% 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
Avondale is a suburb of Christchurch in the South Island of New Zealand. It is located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) northeast of the city center, and is close to the Avon River / Ōtākaro, four kilometres to the northwest of its estuary. The suburb is centred on Avondale Road and so named due to its proximity to the Avon River. It has a good sized park on Mervyn Drive called Avondale Park. This park has a kids playground, a tennis court, basketball court, and a football field in winter. There is ample vacant red zone land in Avondale for activities such as leisure and dog walking.
As reported 3,053 on record
The suburb, back then 1 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 Avondale
- Avondale enters the written record on 5 January 1877, “Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Otago Daily Times, 05 January 1877)”, Papers Past.
- “Avondale” appears somewhere in 466 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: rubbish/recycling, 9 June 2015, at Avonside Drive.
- Its busiest day on record was 27 April 2016, 33 reports in a single day.
- The street that keeps coming up is Wainoni Road, reported on 388 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
Road Signage152 Avondale Road
speed sign hidden by the tree needs to be seen as there are speed bumps there. Just shows you the ccc planning that went into this work the sign needs too be…
Park - General Request123–127 Hulverstone Dr
This is the new pathway city to sea section on Hulverstone Drive. This is supposed to be a showcase. The poor grassing, lack of planting, fence posts wire has…
Facility - General RequestCanterbury
Someone has lit a fire and melted the tennis court surface, part of the bitumen has peeled off when they have removed the melted material. Court is unusable…
Pavement - General7 Sharlick Street
I trust the contractors will tidy up the the mud and mess they have left while doing the new pathway in particular in the Avondale redzone area. Theyve done a…
Rubbish and Bins - General11 Cowper Place
Last week when our green rubbish bin was emptied the lid must've come off and fallen into the truck! No lid when we came home from work
Reports per year down 22% 2024→2025
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258
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259
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267
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301
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351
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318
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309
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What gets reported
Exactly what people say
How fast the council fixes things here 4,123 finished jobs on record
The median council work order pinned in Avondale 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 3 months or longer. 76 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 8 December 2021.
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, Chisnallwood Intermediate, 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
- Chisnallwood IntermediateIntermediate · decile 5 · EQI 482
Zoned for Chisnallwood Intermediate · Christchurch Adventist School · Haeata Community Campus · Hillview Christian School · Marian College · Middleton Grange School · and 7 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 6
- Avondale ParkSports ground · 4 ha · playground, 46 pieces
- Cedarwood Reserve1 ha
- Avondale Playgroundplayground, 28 pieces
- Hulverstone Reserve
- Emlyn Playgroundplayground, 26 pieces
- Ripene Ma
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 tracks through here 10
- Walk and bike track through Avondale3.9 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avondale2.4 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avondale1.9 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avondale1.8 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avondale1.7 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avondale1.7 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avondale1.5 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avondale1.2 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
The first eight of 10, 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 66.7% of this outline, about 144 hectares. A patch is a footprint, not a finding about an address; the count for the whole city is at /liquefaction.
The Crown’s 2011 classification drew 27.4% of this outline, about 59 hectares inside the residential red zone. A mapped area files under the suburb its middle sits in, and a classification is the record of a decision, not a finding about an address; the whole line is drawn at /redzone.
The flood record drew water over 39.6% of this outline, about 85 hectares, across 1 named event. A patch is one event’s observation, not a live hazard finding; the whole record is drawn at /floods.
The mapped tsunami extent covers 9% of this outline, about 20 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.
7 parcels inside this outline sit on the hazardous-activities register, mostly chemical manufacture, application and bulk storage, vehicle refuelling, service and repair, 2 still doing the work. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.
The files record 131 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 38 hectares, mostly silt, sand, organic material, 4 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.
2 parcels inside this outline carry a cleanup on the file. 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 94% of this outline in the high class, and 9 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 8 assets on this ground, 3 bridges, 3 ramps, 1 jetty, 1 boardwalk, sited at Avon Corridor 10 Rrz Land, Porritt Park, Amelia Rogers Reserve, Avondale 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 6 records inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 3 football, 1 tennis, 1 basketball, 1 petanque. Seasons and surfaces are the register’s record, not this week’s draw; the layer is drawn at the map.
The register counts 858 living trees inside this outline, 7 veterans among them, 9 carrying a protection, mostly Manna Ash, Fastigated Hornbeam, Snow Gum, Alpine Snow Gum. The file remembers 411 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 38% of this outline under Specific Purpose (Otakaro Avon River Corridor), 30% residential, the rest mostly Residential Suburban 29%, Open Space Metropolitan Facilities 14%. 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 8 hectares of this outline, 4%, under 4 designations, mostly learning, movement. 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 schedule of sites significant to Ngāi Tahu covers 8% of this outline, about 16 hectares, 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 8% of this outline, about 18 hectares 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 8% of this outline, about 16 hectares 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 11% of this outline inside high flood hazard ground, about 25 hectares across 9 mapped areas. The broader flood-management watch covers 84% 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, 23 classified reaches, the plan calling Avon River and Wainoni Drain by name, 14% 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, 1% 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 2,086 photographs on this ground, 2011–2017, stormwater 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, 12.1 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, 2 inscribed plaques, Avon Riverbank True Right, Avon Corridor 10 Rrz Land 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, 6 drawn instruments, 3 of them dog rules, 3 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 4 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M3.7 in 2014. 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.
- Avon River / Ōtākarowaterway · 29.2 km
- Preeces Streamwaterway · 0.8 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 117 injury crashes
117 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Avondale's outline, 1 person killed, 28 seriously hurt.
The corner that keeps appearing: Wainoni Road at Breezes Road, 15 injury crashes.
The crime record 781 recorded victimisations
781 victimisations on the Police record inside Avondale’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 79 a year per 1,000 residents. Up 12% on the year before. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.
The buses through it 13 stops
13 Metro stops inside Avondale's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 80.
- Pak n Save Wainoni
- Wainoni Rd near Avonside Dr near Wainoni Rd
- Wainoni Rd near Avonside Dr near Wainoni Rd
- Wainoni Rd near Bexley Rd
- Wainoni Rd near Breezes Rd
- Wainoni Rd near Hampshire St near Wainoni Rd
- Wainoni Rd near Hampshire St near Wainoni Rd
- Wainoni Rd near Orrick Cres near Wainoni Rd
- Wainoni Rd near Orrick Cres near Wainoni Rd
- Wainoni Rd near Portsmouth St near Wainoni Rd
- Wainoni Rd near Portsmouth St near Wainoni Rd
- Wainoni Rd near Shortland St near Wainoni Rd
- Wainoni Rd near Shortland St near Wainoni Rd
Businesses here 10 in the directory
10 premises in Avondale across 7 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:
Before any of that
Documents 40
What the archive’s sources say about Avondale, 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.
41870s
191880s
311890s
671900s
781910s
291920s
301930s
811940s
692000s
472010s
122020s
Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Otago Daily Times, 05 January 1877)
…fer 12 months past and consequently perfectly quiet terms at sale 30d preliminary notice avondale station leasehold freehold and stock foe sale by auction maclea nb r o t h e r s favoured with instru…Otago Daily Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Otago Daily Times, 06 January 1877)
…r less growing crop of oats farming implements c luncheon provided 22d preliminary notice avondale statton leasehold freehold and stock for sale by auction maolea nb roth er s favoured with instructio…Otago Daily Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 13 Advertisements Column 4 (Otago Witness, 12 May 1877)
auctions friday 25th may i at 3 oclock avondale estate southland for sale by auctioa maclean brothers instructed by j w raymond esq will submit to pu…Otago Witness · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Untitled (West Coast Times, 21 January 1879)
…at a most extraordinary escape from death or severe mutilation occurred a few days ago at avondale station under the following circumstances a shepherd had loaded a cheap double-barrelled gun with bal…West Coast Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Otago Daily Times, 06 October 1880)
…e brandy-hennessy 1877-75 hhds ouarten clsr2 tlvplofsntt it has a most pleasant taste the avondale station property the house contains 23 rooms with stabling and do kartell 1877 do do pale and dark tn…Otago Daily Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Otago Daily Times, 09 October 1880)
…he supreme court of the colony of new zealand at invercargill that magnificent estate the avondale station property southland nz mardell co have received instructions from the registrar ot the supreme…Otago Daily Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
ADVENTURE WITH BURGLARS AT CHRISTCHURCH. [By Telegraph.] [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, This Day. (Evening Post, 26 May 1882)
…ph united press association christchurch this day another attempt at burglary was made at avondale ust night tho burglars wore fired at twice bnt eßcapeu unhurt…Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. (Waikato Times, 27 May 1882)
christchurch last night another attempt at burglary was marie at avondale last night the burglars were fired at twice but escaped unhurt the evening train from oamaru yesterda…Waikato Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
CHRISTCHURCH. (Wanganui Herald, 29 May 1882)
christchurch may 27 another attempt at burglary was made at avondale last night the burglars were fired at twice but escaped unhurt…Wanganui Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
CHRISTCHURCH. (Wanganui Herald, 30 May 1882)
christchurch may 27 anothec attempt at burglary was made at avondale last night the burglars were fired at twice but escaped unhurt may 29 last week the promoters of the…Wanganui Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The wire on Avondale 5 lately
Zizina oxleyi seen — Avondale, Christchurch 8061, New ZealandiNaturalist · noahfenwick ·
Long-nosed Fur Seal seen — Wainoni Rd near Bexley Rd, Avondale, Christchurch 8061, New ZealandiNaturalist · seamusmoran ·
Kelp Gull seen — Wainoni Rd near Bexley Rd, Avondale, Christchurch 8061, New ZealandiNaturalist · seamusmoran ·
greater bird's-foot-trefoil seen — Avondale, Christchurch 8061, New ZealandiNaturalist · charolais ·
Zizina seen — Wainoni Rd near Bexley Rd, Avondale, Christchurch 8061, New ZealandiNaturalist · seamusmoran ·
Next door
Compare Avondale with Aranui · Burwood · Wainoni · Dallington · Bexley · North New Brighton, same record, side by side.
Questions, answered briefly
What is Avondale?
Avondale is a suburb of Christchurch in the South Island of New Zealand. The public record holds 3,558 council reports for it, the first filed in June 2015.
How many people live in Avondale?
2,600 people at the 2023 Census, 1,209 per square kilometre across 2.2 km².
How many people does the 2023 Census count for Avondale?
About 2,466 people and 927 occupied private households: grouped from Stats NZ SA1 areas through this site’s suburb join. Indicative, not a LIM.
What gets reported in Avondale?
3,558 reports on record, most often graffiti & vandalism (1,291), rubbish & dumping (1,149), trees & parks (410). 366 of them in the year to 12 October 2026.
How many crashes has Avondale had?
117 injury crashes on the police record inside the suburb’s outline, 1 person killed, 28 seriously hurt. The suburb’s crashes, mapped →
Did earthquakes strike under Avondale?
GeoNet’s catalogue puts 4 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside the suburb’s mapped outline since the September 2010 mainshock, the biggest a M3.7 in 2014. 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 →