Pavement - DamagedPages Rd
Pothole on footpath (possible sinkhole?) on New Brighton bridge. Quarter way down right hand side of bridge heading into New Brighton.
Bexley, Christchurch
2,265 council reports since May 2015, the 60th busiest suburb in the city. 1,959 photographs on record. 2,710 people at the 2023 Census, 1,251 to the square kilometre across 2.2 km².
The record also holds about $365 a week to rent· 2023 Census snapshot· 1,959 photographs· 1 old photograph· 8 parks· 11 tracks· 6 names on the map· 27.7% of the outline mapped liquefied· 30.6% of the outline in the red zone· the record drew water over 37% of the outline· the mapped tsunami reach covers 46% of the outline· the Ngāi Tahu schedule covers 4% of the outline· ecological sites over 26% of the outline· landscape schedules over 25% of the outline· high flood hazard over 33% of the outline· setback strips over 8% of the outline· 537 SCIRT photographs filed on this ground· 10.6 km of cycleway crosses the outline· 6 remembered names on this ground· 14 drawn rules bind this ground· 5 parcels on the dangerous-work register· 119 parcels of made ground· 1 parcels with a cleanup on file· the 2019 model grades this ground mostly high· 4 council structures on the register· 2 recreation register records· 1,068 trees on the register· the plan’s word on this ground· 4% of the outline reserved· 9 epicentres inside the outline· 98 injury crashes· 57 recorded victimisations· 8 bus stops· 2 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
$365/week
middle half $195–$571
New bonds here ran at about $365 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter, the middle half of them between $195 and $571, across 6 bonds lodged, down 37% on a year ago. That’s about $185 a week below the city’s own quarter median of $550. Tenancy Services counts these under the “Bexley” statistical area, close to this suburb’s outline, not exactly it.
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: 31% of the outline went into the residential red zone; the February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over 28% of it, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.
Day to day it holds 8 parks, 11 tracks and 8 bus stops, each is counted further down.
Lately the record’s mostly rubbish & dumping, 260 reports in the year to 12 October 2026, the newest 9 October 2026.
One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 13 April 2022, 24 reports in a single day.
2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here
About 2,628 people and 963 occupied private households in the “Bexley” statistical area, grouped from 18 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 ethnicity75% of ethnicity responses
- Māori ethnicity27% of ethnicity responses
- Pacific Peoples ethnicity12% of ethnicity responses
- Asian ethnicity6% of ethnicity responses
- Households with internet77% of stated households
- Households with two or more vehicles48% 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
Bexley is an eastern suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand. It is located on the right bank of the Avon River / Ōtākaro approximately one kilometre from the Avon Heathcote Estuary. It is enclosed within a bend in the Avon River / Ōtākaro and borders the suburb of Aranui.
As reported 1,959 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 Bexley
- Bexley enters the written record on 28 June 1884, “CRICKET. (Otago Witness, 28 June 1884)”, Papers Past.
- “Bexley” appears somewhere in 113 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: wastewater/stormwater, 26 May 2015, at 11 Cornet Lane.
- Its busiest day on record was 13 April 2022, 24 reports in a single day.
- The street that keeps coming up is Pages Road, reported on 288 separate days.
- For elections the suburb’s centre falls inside Linwood ward, the Coastal-Burwood-Linwood community board is its local layer. The whole roll is at /wards.
Lately the newest reports
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure51 Waitaki Street
several light poles pages rd from anzac drive to Brdge into New Brighton
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure603 Pages Road
building garage on pages rd by red zone and lights Anzac drive
Reports per year up 14% 2024→2025
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What gets reported
Exactly what people say
How fast the council fixes things here 2,615 finished jobs on record
The median council work order pinned in Bexley 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. 45 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 12 November 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.
The suburb today
Schools here
Zoned for Christchurch Adventist School · Hillview Christian School · Marian College · Middleton Grange School · St James School (Aranui) · St Thomas of Canterbury College · and 6 more zones, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.
The green here 8
- Bexley ParkSports ground · 51 ha · playground, 26 pieces
- Bexley WetlandRegional · 15 ha
- Blighs Garden6 ha
- Rat Island Reserve2 ha
- Pages Reserve
- Harold Henry Park
- Bexley Expressway Reserve
- Mitcham Reserve
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 11
- Walk and bike track through Bexley2.4 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Bexley1.8 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Bexley1.6 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Bexley1.2 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Bexley1.2 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Bexley1.2 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Bexley833 m · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Bexley574 m · Christchurch · walk · bike
The first eight of 11, 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 6
The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 27.7% of this outline, about 60 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 30.6% of this outline, about 66 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 36.6% of this outline, about 79 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 46% of this outline, about 100 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.
5 parcels inside this outline sit on the hazardous-activities register, mostly chemical manufacture, application and bulk storage, cemeteries and waste recycling, treatment and disposal, 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 119 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 54 hectares, mostly sand, mixed fill with rubbish, silt, 8 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. 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 42% of this outline in the high class, 81% of the outline fell inside an assessed area, and 7 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 4 assets on this ground, 2 bridges, 1 jetty, 1 boardwalk, sited at Bexley Wetland, Bexley Park, Withells Island 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 2 records inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 1 bmx, plus a marked dog exercise area. Seasons and surfaces are the register’s record, not this week’s draw; the layer is drawn at the map.
The register counts 1,068 living trees inside this outline, 4 veterans among them, 2 carrying a protection, mostly Pekin Willow, Snow Gum, Alpine Snow Gum, Southern Mahogany. The file remembers 410 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 32% of this outline under Specific Purpose (Otakaro Avon River Corridor), the rest mostly Open Space Community Parks 23%, Open Space Water and Margins 15%, 81% of the outline fell inside a mapped zone. 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 9 hectares of this outline, 4%, under 2 designations, mostly 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 4% of this outline, about 9 hectares, 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 26% of this outline, about 56 hectares across 2 scheduled sites, 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 25% of this outline, about 54 hectares across 3 scheduled areas, and 5% of it sits inside the coastal environment. 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 33% of this outline inside high flood hazard ground, about 71 hectares across 3 mapped areas. The broader flood-management watch covers 51% 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, 22 classified reaches, the plan calling Knights Drain and Avon River by name, 8% 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 rebuild’s cameras filed 537 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, 10.6 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, 6 inscribed plaques, Bexley Wetland, Bexley Park, John Hinton Memorial 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, 14 drawn instruments, 11 of them dog rules, 1 camping zone, a certified self-contained van can stay the night at City Coastal Restricted Zone, 2 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 9 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M3.8 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.
- Jack Hinton VCmonument
- Bexley Landfillold dump · 1956–1984
- Avon River / Ōtākarowaterway · 29.2 km
- Estuary Drainwaterway · 1.0 km
- Knights Drainwaterway · 0.6 km
- Naughty Boys Islandwetland
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 98 injury crashes
98 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Bexley's outline, 2 people killed, 18 seriously hurt.
The corner that keeps appearing: State Highway 74 at Pages Road, 20 injury crashes, 1 fatal.
The crime record 57 recorded victimisations
57 victimisations on the Police record inside Bexley’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 5 a year per 1,000 residents. Up 21% on the year before. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.
The buses through it 8 stops
8 Metro stops inside Bexley's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 5, route 110.
- Pages Rd
- Pages Rd
- Pages Rd near Charles Gallagher Pl
- Pages Rd near Farnborough St
- Pages Rd near Portchester St near Pages Rd
- Pages Rd near Portchester St near Pages Rd
- Pages Rd near Waitaki St near Pages Rd
- Pages Rd near Waitaki St near Pages Rd
Businesses here 2 in the directory
2 premises in Bexley across 2 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 Bexley, 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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CRICKET. (Otago Witness, 28 June 1884)
…from london as follows on may 3 spofforth and murdoch played for the orleans club against bexley and the demon signalled his reappearance on the english turf by a performance which mr dave scott may j…Otago Witness · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
LAND & WATER. (Otago Witness, 03 October 1885)
…in connection with the gentlemen and pltyers matches according to mr herbert troughton of bexley heath mr grace first played for the gentlemen in 1865 and with the exception of 1867 and 1883 he has pl…Otago Witness · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
NEW SOUTH WALES SPORTING NOTES. (Otago Witness, 21 January 1887)
…accident at randwick on monday last in tattersall two-year-old selling race he was riding bexley on rounding the turn for home the colt fell bringing down poor skehan with him after 48 hours uuconscio…Otago Witness · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Otago Witness, 24 October 1889)
…brighton and a group of racehorses exercising the course of the high road from london to bexley has been changed to improve the approach the strong room alone has cost 2000 the dining hall outside wh…Otago Witness · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Ashburton Guardian, 20 August 1890)
…rmers for grain stores at low rentals at the following stations balmoral medbury hawarden bexley view hill mandeville carleton ladbrooks weedons homebush south malvern westerfield valetta anama cavend…Ashburton Guardian · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Otago Witness, 03 March 1892)
…ing out some experiments with the weapon it is found however that the ordinary targets at bexley do not afford sufficient range a ricochet bullet broke a cottage window over four miles distant from th…Otago Witness · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Who Pays All? TO THE EDITOR. (Otago Witness, 19 May 1892)
…7 cavleton g 22 coal creek 0 v2o oxford east o 25 albury a 5 view hill 2 27 tencawai oa 8 bexley 3 29 cricklewood 12 sheffield 3 32 winscombe 3 g 1141 14 annat v 35 fairlie creek fcpq 18 springfield 1…Otago Witness · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Oxford Observer, 21 April 1894)
…nders are invited for the follow l ing works clearing manuka and tussocks depot road near bexley station fresh ten ders forming cutting above water race dam view hill tenders to be sent in before noon…Oxford Observer · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Oxford Observer, 28 April 1894)
…tenders are invited for the follow ing works clearing manuka and tussocks depot road near bexley station fresh ten ders forming cutting above water race dam view hill tenders to be sent m before noon…Oxford Observer · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Oxford Observer, 23 June 1894)
…f manuka ard ploughing roads or cutting off or grubbing manuka and tussocks on roads near bexley station carting shingle and filling ruts on mc jarrow and powells road carting shingle and patching mai…Oxford 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 Bexley 5 lately
Myoporum insulare seen — Bexley, Christchurch, New ZealandiNaturalist · noahfenwick ·
Zizina oxleyi seen — Bexley, Christchurch, New ZealandiNaturalist · noahfenwick ·
Cotula coronopifolia seen — Bexley, Christchurch, New ZealandiNaturalist · noahfenwick ·
Lotus pedunculatus seen — Bexley, Christchurch, New ZealandiNaturalist · noahfenwick ·
Cytisus scoparius seen — Bexley, Christchurch, New ZealandiNaturalist · noahfenwick ·
Next door
Compare Bexley with Aranui · New Brighton · South New Brighton · Avondale · Wainoni · North New Brighton, same record, side by side.
Questions, answered briefly
What is Bexley?
Bexley is an eastern suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand. The public record holds 2,265 council reports for it, the first filed in May 2015.
How many people live in Bexley?
2,710 people at the 2023 Census, 1,251 per square kilometre across 2.2 km².
How many people does the 2023 Census count for Bexley?
About 2,628 people and 963 occupied private households: grouped from Stats NZ SA1 areas through this site’s suburb join. Indicative, not a LIM.
What gets reported in Bexley?
2,265 reports on record, most often rubbish & dumping (1,033), graffiti & vandalism (575), trees & parks (316). 260 of them in the year to 12 October 2026.
How many crashes has Bexley had?
98 injury crashes on the police record inside the suburb’s outline, 2 people killed, 18 seriously hurt. The suburb’s crashes, mapped →
Did earthquakes strike under Bexley?
GeoNet’s catalogue puts 9 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside the suburb’s mapped outline since the September 2010 mainshock, the biggest a M3.8 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 →