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Casebrook, Christchurch

2,974 council reports since June 2015, the 51st busiest suburb in the city. 2,326 photographs on record. 6,720 people at the 2023 Census, 1,953 to the square kilometre across 3.4 km².

Reports, all time
2,974
In the year to 12 Oct 2026
620
Busiest in Christchurch
51st
Photographs
2,326

The record also holds about $598 a week to rent 2023 Census snapshot 2,326 photographs 1 school 13 parks 1 civic facility 8 tracks 4 names on the map 7.4% of the outline mapped liquefied graded mostly TC2 in 2011 the record drew water over 12% of the outline ecological sites over 3% of the outline landscape schedules over 4% of the outline noise overlays over the whole outline setback strips over 9% of the outline 791 SCIRT photographs filed on this ground 7.2 km of cycleway crosses the outline 1 remembered name on this ground 6 drawn rules bind this ground 4 parcels on the dangerous-work register 218 parcels of made ground 4 parcels with a cleanup on file the 2019 model grades this ground mostly possible 37 council structures on the register 19 recreation register records 2,599 trees on the register the plan’s word on this ground 2% of the outline reserved 75 injury crashes 993 recorded victimisations 32 bus stops 39 businesses the council’s fix times 15 documents 2 mentions on the wire

See it on the map Its decade, charted

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

$598/week middle half $583–$697

New bonds here ran at about $598 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter, the middle half of them between $583 and $697, across 27 bonds lodged, down 8% on a year ago. That’s about $48 a week above the city’s own quarter median of $550. Tenancy Services counts these under the Casebrook and Regents Park areas combined, approximately this suburb.

By dwelling type and bedrooms, April–June 2026 quarter
  • 1-bedroom house, $595 a week · 12 new bonds
  • 3-bedroom house, $620 a week · 9 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 7% of it; the 2011 grading filed it mostly TC2, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.

Day to day it holds 1 school, 13 parks, 1 civic facility, 8 tracks and 32 bus stops, each is counted further down.

Lately the record’s mostly trees & parks, 620 reports in the year to 12 October 2026, the newest 11 October 2026.

One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 4 September 2026, 15 reports in a single day.

2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here

People
6,090
Under 15
15%
65 and over
23%
Occupied households
2,382

About 6,090 people and 2,382 occupied private households in the “Casebrook” and “Regents Park” areas, grouped from 36 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 overseas21% of stated birthplace
  • European ethnicity84% of ethnicity responses
  • Māori ethnicity9% of ethnicity responses
  • Pacific Peoples ethnicity3% of ethnicity responses
  • Asian ethnicity12% of ethnicity responses
  • Households with internet90% of stated households
  • Households with two or more vehicles61% 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

Casebrook is a suburb on the northern side of Christchurch city.

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

As reported 2,326 on record

8B Cavendish Road, Casebrook8A Cavendish Road, Casebrook22 Cavendish Road, Casebrook28A Cavendish Road, Casebrook38 Cavendish Road, Casebrook38 Cavendish Road, Casebrook 2,326 photographs
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The record on Casebrook

Lately the newest reports

Water Leak, a report photo
Water Leak11A Kimberley St

120A Highsted Road. Was on a private leak detection job. Customer was losing 0.8lPM. There is also a leak on the council connection. Request for meter…

Reports per year up 4% 2024→2025

What gets reported

Trees & parks 812
Roads & footpaths 600
Rubbish & dumping 526
Water & drains 426
Graffiti & vandalism 406
Everything else 122
Vehicles & parking 58
Animals & pests 22 Noise 2

Streets that keep coming up each a street page

Every street the archive knows in Casebrook →

Exactly what people say

How fast the council fixes things here 5,700 finished jobs on record

The median council work order pinned in Casebrook took 7 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 4 months or longer. 200 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 19 December 2018.

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, Casebrook 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

Zoned for Casebrook Intermediate · Christchurch Adventist School · Emmanuel Christian School · Marian College · Middleton Grange School · Papanui High School · and 9 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 13

The first eight of 13, 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

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.

The tracks through here 8

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 4

The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 7.4% of this outline, about 26 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 13.4% of this outline, about 46 hectares, mostly TC2, with TC3 16 ha · TC2 30 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 11.8% of this outline, about 41 hectares, across 1 named event. A patch is one event’s observation, not a live hazard finding; the whole record is drawn at /floods.

4 parcels inside this outline sit on the hazardous-activities register, mostly cemeteries and waste recycling, treatment and disposal, vehicle refuelling, service and repair, chemical manufacture, application and bulk storage, 1 still doing the work. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.

The files record 218 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 78 hectares, mostly engineered fill, silt, pitrun, 3 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. 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 52% of this outline in the possible 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 37 assets on this ground, 15 bridges, 7 boardwalks, 6 ramps, 4 sets of steps, sited at Tulett Park, Aylsham Reserve, Gardiners Drainage Reserve, Styx Mill Conservation 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 19 records inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 17 football, 1 learn to ride, 1 cricket. Seasons and surfaces are the register’s record, not this week’s draw; the layer is drawn at the map.

The register counts 2,599 living trees inside this outline, 4 veterans among them, 10 carrying a protection, mostly Manna Ash, Sweet Gum, Flowering Cherry. The file remembers 672 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 34% of this outline under Residential New Neighbourhood, 68% residential, the rest mostly Residential Suburban 34%, Transport 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 6 hectares of this outline, 2%, under 2 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 ecological schedules cover 3% of this outline, about 11 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 4% of this outline, about 15 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.

No high-hazard flood area covers this outline. The broader flood-management watch covers 41% of it, Lower Styx 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 344 hectares across 2 mapped overlays, 4% 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, 105 classified reaches, the plan calling Styx Drain and Cavendish Stream by name, 9% of it inside the setback strips, the widest holding 20 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 791 photographs on this ground, 2010–2014, 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, 7.2 km of cycleway crosses the outline, 2.4 km of it separated from the traffic, Northern Line. A segment counts under every suburb its path enters; the whole network is drawn at /cycleways.

The remembered names stand on this ground, 1 inscribed plaque, Tulett Park 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.

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 75 injury crashes

75 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Casebrook's outline, 1 person killed, 21 seriously hurt.

The corner that keeps appearing: Styx Mill Road at Cavendish Road, 10 injury crashes.

the suburb’s crashes on the map →

The crime record 993 recorded victimisations

993 victimisations on the Police record inside Casebrook’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 41 a year per 1,000 residents. Up 23% 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 32 stops

32 Metro stops inside Casebrook's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 27, route 107, route 28.

Every route in the record →

Businesses here 39 in the directory

39 premises in Casebrook across 25 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

Documents 15

What the archive’s sources say about Casebrook, 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.

REGISTER…RANGA Care Chemists (Mt Maunganui) Limited Cnr Girven Road & Grenada Street, MT MAUNGANUI Casebrook Pharmacy (1981) Limited 14 Grampian Street, Bishopdale, CHRISTCHURCH Castle Pharmacy Limited 96 Jell…New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · · text held
Taking marks and a discus results at QE2 Stadium…grandstand, the results board displays the Year 8 discus results: first, Lauren Welsh of Casebrook Intermediate, second, Nicole Watts of Kirkwood Intermediate, and third, Jennifer Naoupu of Casebrook…Greg O’Beirne collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries ·
In Bankruptcy…parangi, Wellington, at 1.50 p.m.Mannering, Damaris Jane, housewife, of 1/2 Heaphy Place, Casebrook, Christchurch, at 12.20 p.m.Pullen, Garrison James, unemployed, of 6A Elmslie Road, Pinehaven, Upper…New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · · text held
In Bankruptcy…Fitzgerald Street, Kawerau, at 12.13pm.Coster, Bobby Brian, unemployed, 2/11 Omega Place, Casebrook, Christchurch, at 3.35pm.McEwen, Christine Helen, unemployed, 35 Egmont Street, Patea, at 9.45am.Smi…New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · · text held
Bankruptcies…5 River Road, Richmond, Christchurch – 2 December 2008.Wratt, Shane, 5A Kimberley Street, Casebrook, Christchurch – 2 December 2008.Zabaglo, Margaret, 4 Eastland Road, Richmond Park, Manukau – 1 Decem…New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · · text held
Bankruptcies…nd Leonard, 65 Savage Road, Waihi – 24 July 2009.Nesbitt, Tracy Anne, 45A Jocelyn Street, Casebrook, Christchurch – 28 July 2009.Orrell, David Brent, 163 Coatesville/Riverhead Road, Kumeu, Auckland –…New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · · text held
Bankruptcies…23 Waimea Highway, RD 6, Gore - 22 December 2009.Brewer, Royce James, 323 Highstead Road, Casebrook, Christchurch - 23 December 2009.Brickell, Graeme Cameron, 359 Kimptons Road, Brookby, Auckland - 14…New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · · text held
LIST OF CIVIL UNION CELEBRANTS…ianne Heather, 13A Dinsdale Road, Hamilton.McCormack, Christina Mary, 25 Applewood Place, Casebrook, Christchurch.McCosh, Glenis Parks, 2/14 Aramu Road, One Tree Hill, Auckland.McCrystal, Shirley-Ann,…New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · · text held
Notice of Intention to Restore Companies to the Register…, Te Awamutu 3800. JAHAN TILING LIMITED. Applicant: Emad Fahmy Ibrahim, 8 Marlene Street, Casebrook, Christchurch 8051. JAYDEEZ RENTAL PROPERTIES (KAPITI) LIMITED. Applicant: Richard Van Eck (Lowtax L…New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · · text held
Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From the Register…RVING EDGE LIMITED.CARWEN INVESTMENTS LIMITED.CASA DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED.CASAMITCH LIMITED.CASEBROOK PHARMACY (2010) LIMITED.CASHBOX LIMITED.CASHIE GROUP LIMITED.CASSAVA INVESTMENTS LIMITED.CASTLE WOOL…New Zealand Gazette · Department of Internal Affairs · · text held

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

The wire on Casebrook 2 lately

Anas seen — Casebrook, Christchurch 8051, New ZealandiNaturalist · baronsamedi ·
Gday folks, I may be moving to Chch next year and I had some suburbs in mind on where to live so I was hoping to get some feedback and suggestions. Even though Chch is easy to get around and…r/chch · Ok-Bar601 ·

The whole wire →

Next door

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Compare Casebrook with Northcote · Redwood · Northwood · Bishopdale · PAPANUI · Harewood, same record, side by side.

Questions, answered briefly

What is Casebrook?

Casebrook is a suburb on the northern side of Christchurch city. The public record holds 2,974 council reports for it, the first filed in June 2015.

How many people live in Casebrook?

6,720 people at the 2023 Census, 1,953 per square kilometre across 3.4 km².

How many people does the 2023 Census count for Casebrook?

About 6,090 people and 2,382 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 Casebrook?

2,974 reports on record, most often trees & parks (812), roads & footpaths (600), rubbish & dumping (526). 620 of them in the year to 12 October 2026.

How many crashes has Casebrook had?

75 injury crashes on the police record inside the suburb’s outline, 1 person killed, 21 seriously hurt. The suburb’s crashes, mapped →

What did the earthquakes grade Casebrook?

The 2011 technical categories filed 13.4% of the suburb’s outline, about 46 hectares, mostly TC2. TC1 meant standard foundations sufficed, TC2 enhanced, TC3 site-specific engineering, a verdict for the patch of ground, not a finding about any one address. The grades, drawn →

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