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Burnside, Christchurch

5,800 council reports since June 2015, the 21st busiest suburb in the city. 4,445 photographs on record. 10,810 people at the 2023 Census, 2,055 to the square kilometre across 5.3 km².

Reports, all time
5,800
In the year to 12 Oct 2026
856
Busiest in Christchurch
21st
Photographs
4,445

The record also holds about $641 a week to rent 2023 Census snapshot 4,445 photographs 14 old photographs 5 schools 19 parks 3 civic facilities 6 places of worship 27 tracks 6 names on the map 1.8% of the outline mapped liquefied graded mostly TC3 in 2011 the record drew water over 12% of the outline noise overlays over the whole outline setback strips over 2% of the outline 2% of the outline inside the plan’s density overlays 1,382 SCIRT photographs filed on this ground 17.7 km of cycleway crosses the outline 8 remembered names on this ground 13 drawn rules bind this ground 9 parcels on the dangerous-work register 128 parcels of made ground 1 parcels with a cleanup on file the 2019 model grades this ground mostly possible 31 council structures on the register 86 recreation register records 4,877 trees on the register the plan’s word on this ground 8% of the outline reserved 2 places on the heritage schedule 1 epicentre inside the outline 351 injury crashes 2,100 recorded victimisations 80 bus stops 145 businesses the council’s fix times 1 heritage place 40 documents 5 mentions on the wire

See it on the map Its decade, charted

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

$641/week middle half $596–$676

New bonds here ran at about $641 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter, the middle half of them between $596 and $676, across 60 bonds lodged, up 3% on a year ago. That’s about $91 a week above the city’s own quarter median of $550. Tenancy Services counts these under the Burnside, Burnside Park and Jellie Park areas combined, approximately this suburb.

By dwelling type and bedrooms, April–June 2026 quarter
  • 1-bedroom house, $643 a week · 24 new bonds
  • 3-bedroom house, $630 a week · 21 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 2% of it; the 2011 grading filed it mostly TC3, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.

Day to day it holds 5 schools, 19 parks, 3 civic facilities, 6 places of worship, 27 tracks and 80 bus stops, each is counted further down.

Lately the record’s mostly trees & parks, 856 reports in the year to 12 October 2026, the newest 11 October 2026.

One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 18 August 2022, 29 reports in a single day.

2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here

People
9,912
Under 15
19%
65 and over
15%
Occupied households
3,390

About 9,912 people and 3,390 occupied private households in the “Jellie Park”, “Burnside” and “Burnside Park” areas, grouped from 67 SA1 areas. Several statistical areas are combined here, so this is a grouped proxy rather than a count for one suburb boundary.

More of the 2023 Census
  • Born overseas35% of stated birthplace
  • European ethnicity68% of ethnicity responses
  • Māori ethnicity8% of ethnicity responses
  • Pacific Peoples ethnicity3% of ethnicity responses
  • Asian ethnicity27% of ethnicity responses
  • Households with internet90% of stated households
  • Households with two or more vehicles64% 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

Burnside is a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, located southeast of Christchurch International Airport. As with most suburbs in Christchurch, it has no defined boundaries and is a general area.

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

As reported 4,445 on record

47 Flay Crescent, Burnside27 Dunster Street, Burnside35 Wai-Iti Tce129 Grahams Rd41 Wayside Avenue, Burnside20 Rubens Pl 4,445 photographs
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The suburb, back then 14 in the archive

[The Christ King School?], Burnside, Christchurch, 1950Burnside, Christchurch, 1959Memorial Avenue, Burnside, Christchurch City, 1959Memorial Avenue, Burnside, Christchurch City, 1959Burnside, Christchurch, 1963Burnside, Christchurch, 1963Burnside, Christchurch, 1963Burnside, Christchurch, 1963Burnside, Christchurch, 1963Harewood Airport, Burnside, Christchurch, 1963 14 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 Burnside

Lately the newest reports

Pavement - Damaged, a report photo
Pavement - Damaged5 Hidcote Pl

The new footpath outside 3 Hidcote Place has developed a growing hole. 3 days ago I noticed a dimple in the newly laid footpath and yesterday it was slightly…

Dumped Rubbish, a report photo
Dumped Rubbish6 Stanleys Road

Dumped rubbish yet again down Stanleys road in Harewood partially blocking the road. There is also a pile down Wairakei road nearby across from the golf…

Reports per year up 6% 2024→2025

What gets reported

Trees & parks 1,395
Roads & footpaths 1,315
Graffiti & vandalism 1,024
Rubbish & dumping 798
Water & drains 792
Vehicles & parking 259
Everything else 156
Animals & pests 51 Noise 10

Streets that keep coming up each a street page

Every street the archive knows in Burnside →

Exactly what people say

How fast the council fixes things here 11,313 finished jobs on record

The median council work order pinned in Burnside took 5 days to resolve, the city-wide median is 3 days, so this ground runs slower than the city as a whole. The slowest tenth waited 3 months or longer. 283 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 3 April 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

5 sensitive sites stand here, Burnside High School, Christ The King School, Odessey House, Te Ara Maurea Roydvale School, Wairarapa Cobham Intermediate, 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 5

Zoned for Burnside High School · Christ The King School (Burnside) · Christchurch Adventist School · Marian College · Middleton Grange School · St Bede's College · and 12 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 19

The first eight of 19, 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 3

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 6

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 27

The first eight of 27, 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 1.8% of this outline, about 10 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 2.0% of this outline, about 10 hectares, mostly TC3, with TC3 9 ha · TC2 2 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 12.3% of this outline, about 65 hectares, across 1 named event. A patch is one event’s observation, not a live hazard finding; the whole record is drawn at /floods.

9 parcels inside this outline sit on the hazardous-activities register, mostly chemical manufacture, application and bulk storage, vehicle refuelling, service and repair, cemeteries and waste recycling, treatment and disposal, 4 still doing the work. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.

The files record 128 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 68 hectares, mostly compacted hardfill, silt, gravel, 5 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 66% of this outline in the possible class, and 1 assessed area 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 31 assets on this ground, 10 shelters, 8 sets of steps, 7 bridges, 4 boardwalks, sited at Jellie Park, Westburn Reserve, Avice Hill Reserve, Jellie Park Rec And Sports Ctr. 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 86 records inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 18 touch rugby, 18 disc golf, 16 football, 10 tennis. Seasons and surfaces are the register’s record, not this week’s draw; the layer is drawn at the map.

The register counts 4,877 living trees inside this outline, 83 veterans among them, 191 carrying a protection, mostly Silver Birch, Pin Oak, Manna Ash. The file remembers 1,800 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 43% of this outline under Residential Suburban, 45% residential, the rest mostly Transport 13%, Rural Urban Fringe 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 41 hectares of this outline, 8%, under 6 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 heritage schedule protects 2 places by name in this suburb, Open Air Classroom (east) and Setting, Open Air Classroom (west) and Setting. And the street itself is listed, the Wayside Avenue ’Parade of Homes’ heritage area lies here, protected as a street rather than house by house. 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 6% 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 noise overlays cover all of this outline, about 526 hectares across 6 mapped overlays, 35% of it inside the airport’s air-noise contours, where the 55 dB line bites, 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, 52 classified reaches, the plan calling Wairarapa Stream and Waimairi Stream by name, 2% of it inside the setback strips, the widest holding 20 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, 2% 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 1,382 photographs on this ground, 2010–2016, 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, 17.7 km of cycleway crosses the outline, 3.2 km of it separated from the traffic, Nor'West Arc, Wheels to Wings. A segment counts under every suburb its path enters; the whole network is drawn at /cycleways.

The remembered names stand on this ground, 8 inscribed plaques, Avice Hill Reserve, Burnside Park, Waimairi Cemetery 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, 13 drawn instruments, 2 of them dog rules, 2 alcohol bans, 9 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 1 magnitude-3+ epicentre inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M3.1 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 351 injury crashes

351 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Burnside's outline, 7 people killed, 74 seriously hurt.

The corner that keeps appearing: State Highway 1S at Memorial Avenue, 25 injury crashes.

the suburb’s crashes on the map →

The crime record 2,100 recorded victimisations

2,100 victimisations on the Police record inside Burnside’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 53 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 suburb on the crime map →

The buses through it 80 stops

80 Metro stops inside Burnside's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 120, route 29, route 3, route 8, route 125, the Orbiter (anticlockwise), the Orbiter (clockwise), route 130, route 17.

Every route in the record →

Businesses here 145 in the directory

145 premises in Burnside across 53 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. Dwelling and Setting, Hatherley19 Gleneagles Terrace

Documents 40

What the archive’s sources say about Burnside, 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.

ELECTORAL ROLL FOR THE DISTRICT OF CHRISTCHURCH. (Lyttelton Times, 16 August 1854)…ut the limits of a town of the clear animal value of five pounds freeholder 50 acres land burnside sections g b freeholder 22 acres part section 133 papanui a leaseholder of isabel farm situated betwe…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
JURY LIST. (Lyttelton Times, 31 March 1855)…lliam wauen farm labourer hodgkinson samuel birch hollow station gentleman hodgson paul n burnside station farmer hoggan james lyttelton labourer holland william little river grazier holton george tho…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
JURY LIST. (Lyttelton Times, 20 February 1856)…blatcbiord wiiliam christchurch clerk bloor afiam governor bay farm servant boag wiiiiam burnside farmer bourne charles riccarton mad farmer rowen charles riccarton farmer bovei charles christopher c…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 22 July 1857)…n i and hector rising three years have been in shafts and plough apply to mr william boag burnside riccarton where they can be seen…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
JURY LIST FOR 1860. (Lyttelton Times, 19 May 1860)…dam governor bay farmer blyth william chester street christchurch stonemason boag william burnside farmer boaz george kaiapoi laborer boddingtong henry north road kaiapoi stonemason boggisy george tua…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 (Lyttelton Times, 18 September 1861)…rs dibectoes chairmanthos henderson deputy-chairman s browning alfred buckland john henry burnside hugh coolahan william c daldy john graham george burgoyne owen thomas russell cj stone william c wils…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 (Lyttelton Times, 21 September 1861)…rs dieectoes chairmanthos henderson deputy-chairman s browning alfred buckland john henry burnside hugh coolahan william c daldy john graham george burgoyne owen thomas russell c j stone william c wil…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 (Lyttelton Times, 28 September 1861)…s dibkctoks chairman thos henderson deputy-chairman s browning alfred buckland john henry burnside hugh coolahan william c daldy john graham george burgoyne owen thomas russell c j stone william c wil…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 05 October 1861)…rs directors chairmanthos henderson deputy-chairman s browning alfred buckland john henry burnside hugh coolahan william c daldy john graham george burgoyne owen thomas russell c j stone william c wil…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 07 December 1861)…ers directors chairmanthos henderson deputy-chairmans browning alfred buckland john henry burnside hugh coolahan william c daldy john graham george burgoyne owen thomas russell c j stone william c wil…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 Burnside 5 lately

Driver trapped after van crashes in BurnsideThe news · chrislynchmedia.com ·
Something seen — Clyde Rd near Wai-iti Tce, Burnside, Christchurch 8053, New ZealandiNaturalist · ryan9006 ·
Significant earthquake-related rebuild work at Burnside High was never part of the Christchurch Schools Rebuild programme, the Ministry of Education says.The Press · Cate Macintosh ·
Burnside High says major rebuild was ‘defunded’, ministry says it was never fundedThe news · The Press ·
Burnside High left to fix up old buildings after Ministry of Education abandons promised post-quake rebuildThe news · The Press ·

The whole wire →

Next door

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Compare Burnside with Bryndwr · Ilam · Bishopdale · Avonhead · Christchurch Airport · Strowan, same record, side by side.

Questions, answered briefly

What is Burnside?

Burnside is a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, located southeast of Christchurch International Airport. The public record holds 5,800 council reports for it, the first filed in June 2015.

How many people live in Burnside?

10,810 people at the 2023 Census, 2,055 per square kilometre across 5.3 km².

How many people does the 2023 Census count for Burnside?

About 9,912 people and 3,390 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 Burnside?

5,800 reports on record, most often trees & parks (1,395), roads & footpaths (1,315), graffiti & vandalism (1,024). 856 of them in the year to 12 October 2026.

How many crashes has Burnside had?

351 injury crashes on the police record inside the suburb’s outline, 7 people killed, 74 seriously hurt. The suburb’s crashes, mapped →

Did earthquakes strike under Burnside?

GeoNet’s catalogue puts 1 magnitude-3+ epicentre inside the suburb’s mapped outline since the September 2010 mainshock, the biggest a M3.1 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 →