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Cashmere, Christchurch

9,770 council reports since May 2015, the 11th busiest suburb in the city. 7,650 photographs on record. 6,900 people at the 2023 Census, 523 to the square kilometre across 13 km².

Reports, all time
9,770
In the year to 13 Oct 2026
1,296
Busiest in Christchurch
11th
Photographs
7,650

The record also holds about $707 a week to rent 2023 Census snapshot 7,650 photographs 128 old photographs 2 schools 27 parks 2 civic facilities 3 places of worship 28 tracks 11 names on the map 1.9% of the outline mapped liquefied 0.2% of the outline in the red zone graded mostly TC3 in 2011 the record drew water over 3% of the outline slope-hazard bands cover 14% of the outline landscape schedules over 65% of the outline setback strips over 9% of the outline 4,305 SCIRT photographs filed on this ground 14.9 km of cycleway crosses the outline 14 remembered names on this ground 34 drawn rules bind this ground 11 parcels on the dangerous-work register 163 parcels of made ground 510 surveyed rocks 6 parcels with a cleanup on file the 2019 model grades this ground mostly unlikely 4 engineered defences 154 council structures on the register 3 recreation register records 1,760 trees on the register the plan’s word on this ground 1% of the outline reserved 13 places on the heritage schedule 205 epicentres inside the outline 315 injury crashes 1,259 recorded victimisations 36 bus stops 51 businesses the council’s fix times 14 heritage places 40 documents 5 mentions on the wire

See it on the map Its decade, charted

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

$707/week middle half $562–$846

New bonds here ran at about $707 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter, the middle half of them between $562 and $846, across 21 bonds lodged, up 20% on a year ago. That’s about $157 a week above the city’s own quarter median of $550. Tenancy Services counts these under the Cashmere West and Cashmere East areas combined, approximately this suburb.

By dwelling type and bedrooms, April–June 2026 quarter
  • 1-bedroom house, $700 a week · 9 new bonds
  • 3-bedroom house, $728 a week · 6 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: 0% of the outline went into the residential red zone; the February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over 2% of it, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.

Day to day it holds 2 schools, 27 parks, 2 civic facilities, 3 places of worship, 28 tracks and 36 bus stops, each is counted further down.

Lately the record’s mostly water & drains, 1,296 reports in the year to 13 October 2026, the newest 13 October 2026.

One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 11 October 2022, 69 reports in a single day.

2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here

People
6,690
Under 15
19%
65 and over
19%
Occupied households
2,508

About 6,690 people and 2,508 occupied private households in the “Cashmere West” and “Cashmere East” areas, grouped from 43 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 overseas26% of stated birthplace
  • European ethnicity92% of ethnicity responses
  • Māori ethnicity5% of ethnicity responses
  • Pacific Peoples ethnicity1% of ethnicity responses
  • Asian ethnicity6% of ethnicity responses
  • Households with internet92% of stated households
  • Households with two or more vehicles67% 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

Cashmere is a suburb which rises above the southern end of the city of Christchurch in New Zealand's South Island, on the north side of the Port Hills. It covers an area of 4.71 km2 (1.82 sq mi) and has a population of 6,453 as at 2018.

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

As reported 7,650 on record

20 Colombo StCanterburyCanterbury160 Bowenvale Avenue, Cashmere143 Hackthorne Rd1781 Summit Road, Governors Bay 8971 7,650 photographs
on the wall →

The suburb, back then 128 in the archive

Summit Road scrapbook, page 200, 1900Summit Road scrapbook, page 286b, 1900Summit Road scrapbook, page 287a, 1900Summit Road scrapbook, page 287b, 1900Summit Road scrapbook, page 287c, 1900Summit Road scrapbook, page 287d, 1900Summit Road scrapbook, pages 2 and 3, 1900Summit Road scrapbook, pages 200 and 201, 1900Summit Road scrapbook, pages 232 and 233, 1900Summit Road scrapbook, pages 252 and 253, 1900 128 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 Cashmere

Lately the newest reports

Water Leak, a report photo
Water Leak4 Rossmore Tce

Previously reported and inspected but now worse. Dry day, no rain, no run off and significant water leak. There is enough to test for chlorine.

Reports per year down 22% 2024→2025

What gets reported

Water & drains 2,605
Graffiti & vandalism 1,840
Trees & parks 1,830
Roads & footpaths 1,678
Rubbish & dumping 1,210
Vehicles & parking 290
Everything else 248
Animals & pests 60 Noise 9

Streets that keep coming up each a street page

Every street the archive knows in Cashmere →

Exactly what people say

How fast the council fixes things here 14,959 finished jobs on record

The median council work order pinned in Cashmere 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. 340 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 4 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

2 sensitive sites stand here, Cashmere Primary Te Pae Kereru, Te Kura o Huriawa Thorrington, 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 2

Zoned for Cashmere High School · Christchurch Adventist School · Christchurch South Karamata Intermediate School · Hillview Christian School · Middleton Grange School · St Thomas of Canterbury College · and 8 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 27

The first eight of 27, 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 2

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 3

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 28

The first eight of 28, 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 11

The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 1.9% 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 Crown’s 2011 classification drew 0.2% of this outline 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 2011 grading filed 0.9% of this outline, about 11 hectares, mostly TC3, with TC3 8 ha · TC2 4 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 2.5% of this outline, about 33 hectares, across 5 named events. A patch is one event’s observation, not a live hazard finding; the whole record is drawn at /floods.

The plan’s slope-hazard bands cover 14% of this outline, about 183 hectares, rockfall management area 1, rockfall management area 2, mass movement management area 3. The broad remaining-instability overlay covers 79% of it besides, the plan’s background watch over the hill country. Shares read from a sampled join; a management overlay, not a prediction. The whole watch is drawn at /slope.

11 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, 4 still doing the work. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.

The files record 163 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 60 hectares, mostly silt, peat, topsoil, 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.

The rockfall survey mapped 510 rocks inside this outline across 281 survey pins, 212 came down, 57 still wobble easy. A pin may stand for a cluster and marks where the survey saw the rock, not where it is now; the whole survey is drawn at /boulders.

6 parcels inside this outline carry 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 90% of this outline in the "unlikely" class, and 3 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 register puts 4 engineered rockfall defences inside this outline, 3 rock anchors, 1 catch fence, 1 rated poor or worse on the file. Nearly all are the emergency works the quake years left standing; the whole register is drawn at /defences.

The council’s structure register stands 154 assets on this ground, 78 sets of steps, 40 boardwalks, 22 bridges, 5 shelters, sited at Bowenvale Park, Victoria Park, Purau Reserve, Longhurst Walkway. 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 3 records inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 1 basketball, 1 tennis, 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 1,760 living trees inside this outline, 39 veterans among them, 18 carrying a protection, mostly Common Lime, Silver Birch, Ash. The file remembers 729 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 37% of this outline under Rural Port Hills, 22% residential, the rest mostly Open Space Natural 28%, Residential Hills 15%. 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, 1%, under 1 designation, 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 heritage schedule protects 13 places by name in this suburb, 5 graded highly significant, Cashmere Hills Presbyterian Church and Setting, Dwelling and Setting, Former Dwelling and Setting, Ngaio Marsh House among them. And the street itself is listed, the MacMillan Avenue 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 named scheduled area reaches this outline. A silent-file precinct covers 4% of it besides, sensitive ground the plan flags without naming the sites. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a catalogue. The whole schedule is drawn at /cultural.

The plan’s landscape schedules cover 65% of this outline, about 863 hectares across 4 scheduled areas, 49% of it outstanding, the plan’s strongest landscape standing. 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 1% of it, Heathcote River. 24 ponding spots are mapped here, where the models expect water to sit. 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, 119 classified reaches, the plan calling Scotts Drain and Sibleys Drain by name, 9% 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 4,305 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, 14.9 km of cycleway crosses the outline, Nor'West Arc, Ōpāwaho River. A segment counts under every suburb its path enters; the whole network is drawn at /cycleways.

The remembered names stand on this ground, 14 inscribed plaques, Cashmere Village Green, Cracroft Reserve, Holliss 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, 34 drawn instruments, 29 of them dog rules, 1 alcohol ban, 4 bottle-store buffers; the outline sits inside the takiwā of Rapaki Runanga and 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 205 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M5.6 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.

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 315 injury crashes

315 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Cashmere's outline, 7 people killed, 83 seriously hurt.

The corner that keeps appearing: Dyers Pass Road at Summit Road, 33 injury crashes, 4 fatal.

the suburb’s crashes on the map →

The crime record 1,259 recorded victimisations

1,259 victimisations on the Police record inside Cashmere’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 47 a year per 1,000 residents. Down 21% 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 36 stops

36 Metro stops inside Cashmere's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 1, the Orbiter (anticlockwise), the Orbiter (clockwise).

Every route in the record →

Businesses here 51 in the directory

51 premises in Cashmere across 27 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. Cashmere Hills Presbyterian Church and Setting2 MacMillan Avenue
  2. Clacroft Caverns18 Delhi Place
  3. Dwelling and Setting54 Dyers Pass Road
  4. Dwelling and Setting141 Hackthorne Road
  5. Dwelling and Setting2 Whisby Road
  6. Dwelling and Setting, Blakeney30 Hackthorne Road
  7. Dwelling and Setting, Hursthaven16 Hackthorne Road
  8. Dwelling and Setting, Rise Cottage10 Westenra Terrace
  9. Dwelling and Setting, Whareora63 Dyers Pass Road
  10. Former Beckenham Library and Setting65 Sandwich Road
  11. Former Dwelling and Setting, Ngaio Marsh House37 Valley Road
  12. Ngaio Marsh House Garden37 Valley Road
  13. Sign of the Takahe and Setting200 Hackthorne Road
  14. St Augustine's Anglican Church and Setting5 Cracroft Terrace

The register’s own page for Cashmere →

Documents 40

What the archive’s sources say about Cashmere, 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.

Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 05 June 1852)…ditto 3 vests 1 dozen pair webb braces 12 dozen do cotton do 26 de lame dresses 6 french cashmere shawls 4 counterpanes 6 dozen cotton handkerchiefs half gross worsted stay laces 1 writing desk 1 ced…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 12 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 31 July 1852)…coburg and orleans cloths merino and coloured alpacas gala plaids and dresses embroidered cashmere robes doeskin and pilot cloth shawls and handkerchiefs a large assortment of childrens ladies and men…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 12 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 07 August 1852)…coburg and orleans cloths merino and coloured alpacas gala plaids and dresses embroidered cashmere robes doeskin and pilot cloth shawls and handkerchiefs a large assortmentof childrens ladies and mens…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 29 October 1853)…dies black and white satin shoes do kid leg adelaide channel boots do do cork soled do do cashmere elastic gnssitt do do cashmere elastic channel soled do do cloth button cork soled do do do elastic g…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 29 October 1853)…d paget a barclay 700 victory w d mullens 700 stately t ginder 700 simlak c robertson 750 cashmere g pearson 800 columbus a holton 650 lord wm bentinclc e canney 600 maori g petberbridge 850 clara gpo…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 24 December 1853)…ant muslin frocks robes scotch cambric and frilled caps cap crowns and richly embroidered cashmere hoods woollen boots and hoods and leather shoes children drawn bonnets all colors brown holland dress…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 29 July 1854)…rd paget a barclay 700 victory w dmullens 700 stately t ginder 700 simlah c robertson 750 cashmere g pearson 800 columbus a holton 650 lord wm bentinck e canney 600 maori g petherbridge 800 clara g po…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 02 August 1854)…d paget a barclay 700 victory w d mullens 700 stately t ginder 700 simlah c robertson 750 cashmere g pearson 800 columbus 5 a holton 650 lord wm bentinck e canney 600 l maori g petherbridge 800 clara…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 23 September 1854)…irely new and extensive stock of drapery boots and shoes c consisting of balzarine muslin cashmere de lame coburg gala plaid derry hoyles prints irish poplin colored and jhite tarlatan fancy and eveni…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 30 September 1854)…irely new and extensive stock of drapery boots and shoes c consisting of balzarine muslin cashmere de lame coburg gala plaid derry hoyles prints irish poplin colored and white tarlatan fancy and eveni…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 Cashmere 5 lately

Waihoro Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote Community Board — 4 pm, 15 Oct 2026The council · Christchurch City Council ·
Here are four of my more notable observations from my weekly biodiversity run about Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ, yesterday. The steel blue ladybirds are back. These are Australians that have been…Fediverse · Jon Sullivan ·
dandelions seen — Hackthorne Rd near Stambridge Pl, Cashmere, Christchurch 8022, New ZealandiNaturalist · felixcollins ·
Peruvian Lily seen — Princess Margaret Hospital, Cashmere, Christchurch 8022, New ZealandiNaturalist · alice_shanks ·
Scarlet Pouch seen — Cashmere Rd near Crichton Tce, Cashmere, Christchurch 8022, New ZealandiNaturalist · alice_shanks ·

The whole wire →

336 more documents came up in searches for Cashmere's places and have not been read yet, a lead is a search result, not a fact, until somebody reads it.

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Compare Cashmere with Beckenham · Huntsbury · Somerfield · Cracroft · Saint Martins · Spreydon, same record, side by side.

Questions, answered briefly

What is Cashmere?

Cashmere is a suburb which rises above the southern end of the city of Christchurch in New Zealand's South Island, on the north side of the Port Hills. The public record holds 9,770 council reports for it, the first filed in May 2015.

How many people live in Cashmere?

6,900 people at the 2023 Census, 523 per square kilometre across 13 km².

How many people does the 2023 Census count for Cashmere?

About 6,690 people and 2,508 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 Cashmere?

9,770 reports on record, most often water & drains (2,605), graffiti & vandalism (1,840), trees & parks (1,830). 1,296 of them in the year to 13 October 2026.

How many crashes has Cashmere had?

315 injury crashes on the police record inside the suburb’s outline, 7 people killed, 83 seriously hurt. The suburb’s crashes, mapped →

Did earthquakes strike under Cashmere?

GeoNet’s catalogue puts 205 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside the suburb’s mapped outline since the September 2010 mainshock, the biggest a M5.6 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 →