# Charteris Bay, Christchurch

67 council reports since August 2016, the 103rd busiest suburb in the city. 47 photographs on record.
129 people at the most recent Census.

https://www.chch.live/charteris-bay

## Live source links

Link-outs to the source’s own live pages, chch.live does not copy their live values or source text.

- [Christchurch City Council What’s On](https://www.ccc.govt.nz/news-and-events/whats-on)
- [Christchurch City Libraries events](https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/events/)

## The encyclopaedia on it

Charteris Bay is a small settlement on Banks Peninsula in New Zealand. The settlement is located on the south eastern side of Te Wharau / Charteris Bay, a large inlet of Lyttelton Harbour / Whakaraupō. The settlement sits between Diamond Harbour to the east and Teddington to the west.

Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charteris_Bay), a tertiary source
Population: Stats NZ  Census Statistical Area 2 counts summed over the suburb’s own areas, as Wikipedia maps them.

## Living here

Rent: too few new bonds for a median this quarter, last published about **$575 a week**.

Median and quartiles of weekly rents on new private bonds (Tenancy Services), new bonds only, not the whole stock.

## 2023 Census snapshot

About 1,536 people and 693 occupied private households, grouped from 13 SA1 areas in Diamond Harbour, Teddington. A wider statistical area stands in for this suburb, so this is a proxy rather than a count for the suburb boundary.


Ethnicity is a multiple-response measure, so those percentages are not meant to add to 100%. Stats NZ uses fixed random rounding to base 3; unavailable or confidential cells are left out, not treated as zero.

[individuals](https://datafinder.stats.govt.nz/layer/120766-2023-census-totals-by-topic-for-individuals-by-statistical-area-1-part-1/) · [households](https://datafinder.stats.govt.nz/layer/120765-2023-census-totals-by-topic-for-households-by-statistical-area-1/) · [geography](https://datafinder.stats.govt.nz/table/111243/) · [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

## As reported (47 on record)
- [520A Marine Drive, Charteris Bay 8971](https://www.chch.live/report/8852421)
- [518 Marine Drive, Diamond Harbour, Charteris Bay 8971](https://www.chch.live/report/8444588)
- [131 Andersons Road, Charteris Bay 8971](https://www.chch.live/report/8444564)
- [520A Marine Drive, Charteris Bay 8971](https://www.chch.live/report/8444545)
- [460 Marine Drive, Charteris Bay 8971](https://www.chch.live/report/7778713)
- [444 Marine Drive, Governors Bay, Charteris Bay 8971](https://www.chch.live/report/7264453)

[47 photographs on the wall](https://www.chch.live/wall?suburb=charteris-bay)

## The suburb, back then (2 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.*
- [Ferry passengers at Charteris Bay jetty](https://www.chch.live/then/1920s#p-64773908), 1929 · Canterbury Stories
- [Top wharf in Charteris Bay](https://www.chch.live/then/1920s#p-64773911), 1929 · Canterbury Stories

## The record on Charteris Bay
- Charteris Bay enters the written record in 26 April 1851, [“RURAL SECTIONS CHOSEN. (Lyttelton Times, 26 April 1851)”](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18510426.2.5), [Papers Past](https://www.chch.live/collection/papers-past).
- “Charteris Bay” appears somewhere in 68 of the archive’s records.
- A Papers Past search for the name surfaced 30 records, leads by provenance.
- The first report here: roading/streets, 5 August 2016, at 35.
- Its busiest day was 20 June 2026, 3 reports in a single day.
- The street that keeps coming up is [Marine Drive](https://www.chch.live/street/charteris-bay/marine-drive), reported on 26 separate days.
- For elections the suburb’s centre falls inside [Banks Peninsula ward](https://www.chch.live/wards/banks-peninsula), the [Banks Peninsula community board](https://www.chch.live/boards/banks-peninsula) is its local layer. The whole roll is at [/wards](https://www.chch.live/wards).

## Lately
- [Fallen Tree](https://www.chch.live/report/8852421), 2 Sept 2026 · 520A Marine Drive, “there are 4 dead trees on the road reserve where the head to head walkway comes out onto marine drive near the corner…”
- [Street Gutters / Storm Water](https://www.chch.live/report/8444588), 20 Jun 2026 · 518 Marine Drive, “culvert under the road blocked by rocks at the harbour side, debris under the road, and vegetation on the other side of…”
- [Street Gutters / Storm Water](https://www.chch.live/report/8444564), 20 Jun 2026 · 131 Andersons Road, “Culvert completely blocked. opposite the windy road sign on Anderson's Rd. Result is that water runs down the road and…”
- [Damaged Street Sign](https://www.chch.live/report/8444545), 20 Jun 2026 · 520A Marine Drive, “one speed limit sign has been rotated so that the 30 is not visible, the other has the circular sign removed. corner of…”
- [Pavement - General](https://www.chch.live/report/7778713), 21 Feb 2026 · 460 Marine Drive, “Hi, foreshore erosion, rocks becoming exposed on foreshore causing holes cud become hazardous. it is on a walkway away…”
- [Overgrown Vegetation](https://www.chch.live/report/7264453), 24 Nov 2025 · 444 Marine Drive, “grass long and wet”
- [Damaged Road](https://www.chch.live/report/7164452), 6 Nov 2025 · The House and Garden People Charteris Bay Road, “Recently resurfaced road surface, very quickly deteriorated and now unsafe to drive on.”
- [Damaged Road](https://www.chch.live/report/7153875), 4 Nov 2025 · 144 Charteris Bay Road, “After having been sealed in the last two to three weeks, previous potholes are reappearing and new chip seal has been…”
- [Damaged Road](https://www.chch.live/report/7128283), 30 Oct 2025 · 269 Charteris Bay Road, “Recently resurfacing on road has lifted. Loose gravel ++ Speed limit signs state 60kmph, but too fast for poor road…”
- [Damaged Road](https://www.chch.live/report/7118461), 29 Oct 2025 · 209 Charteris Bay Road, “Very dangerous corners. New seal has slumped and worked loose. One car has already gone over the edge. Car slides even…”
- [Roads - General](https://www.chch.live/report/7074974), 21 Oct 2025 · 426 Marine Drive, “Theres been a slip. Tress pushed down the bank. Has been tidied up. But need more work. Vegetation is sitting on the…”
- [Damaged Road](https://www.chch.live/report/6949420), 26 Sept 2025 · 144 Charteris Bay Road, “This road was resealed less than a year ago and is now filled with temporary repairs again. What steps are being taken…”

## Reports per year
- 2016, 2
- 2017, 4
- 2018, 4
- 2019, 4
- 2020, 4
- 2021, 5
- 2022, 12
- 2023, 9
- 2024, 6
- 2025, 12

## What gets reported
- Roads & footpaths, 48
- Trees & parks, 9
- Water & drains, 5
- Everything else, 3
- [Graffiti & vandalism](https://www.chch.live/problems/graffiti), 2

## Exactly what people say
- [Roading/Streets](https://www.chch.live/problems/road-damage), 21
- [Damaged Road](https://www.chch.live/problems/road-damage), 13
- [Roads - General](https://www.chch.live/problems/road-damage), 4
- [Parks](https://www.chch.live/problems/parks-maintenance), 4
- [Street Gutters / Storm Water](https://www.chch.live/problems/stormwater), 3
- [Road Signage](https://www.chch.live/problems/road-damage), 3
- [Pothole](https://www.chch.live/problems/potholes), 3
- [Pavement - General](https://www.chch.live/problems/footpaths), 2

## On the heritage register (3)
- [Former Charteris Bay School and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/331)
- [Millhouse and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/330)
- [Stables and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/332)

## The streets that keep coming up
- [Marine Drive](https://www.chch.live/street/charteris-bay/marine-drive), reported on 26 separate days
- [Charteris Bay Road](https://www.chch.live/street/charteris-bay/charteris-bay-road), reported on 13 separate days
- [Bayview Road](https://www.chch.live/street/charteris-bay/bayview-road), reported on 3 separate days
- [Andersons Road](https://www.chch.live/street/charteris-bay/andersons-road), reported on 3 separate days

## Documents that name it

*These are leads, not verified claims, search ties, not read sources.*
- [RURAL SECTIONS CHOSEN. (Lyttelton Times, 26 April 1851)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18510426.2.5), [Papers Past](https://www.chch.live/collection/papers-past) · 1851-04-26T00:00:00.000Z
- [ELECTORAL ROLL FOR THE DISTRICT OF CHRISTCHURCH, July 5th, 1853. (Lyttelton Times, 16 July 1853)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18530716.2.12), [Papers Past](https://www.chch.live/collection/papers-past) · 1853-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
- [ELECTORAL ROLL FOR THE DISTRICT OF CHRISTCHURCH. (Lyttelton Times, 16 August 1854)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18540816.2.6), [Papers Past](https://www.chch.live/collection/papers-past) · 1854-08-16T00:00:00.000Z
- [Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 22 July 1857)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18570722.2.17.1), [Papers Past](https://www.chch.live/collection/papers-past) · 1857-07-22T00:00:00.000Z
- [Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 22 August 1857)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18570822.2.16.2), [Papers Past](https://www.chch.live/collection/papers-past) · 1857-08-22T00:00:00.000Z
- [Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 26 August 1857)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18570826.2.16.2), [Papers Past](https://www.chch.live/collection/papers-past) · 1857-08-26T00:00:00.000Z
- [Page 6 Advertisements Column 5 (Lyttelton Times, 29 August 1857)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18570829.2.15.5), [Papers Past](https://www.chch.live/collection/papers-past) · 1857-08-29T00:00:00.000Z
- [Markets. (Lyttelton Times, 06 February 1858)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18580206.2.6), [Papers Past](https://www.chch.live/collection/papers-past) · 1858-02-06T00:00:00.000Z
- [Page 9 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 10 February 1858)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18580210.2.20.3), [Papers Past](https://www.chch.live/collection/papers-past) · 1858-02-10T00:00:00.000Z
- [Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 22 January 1859)](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18590122.2.23.2), [Papers Past](https://www.chch.live/collection/papers-past) · 1859-01-22T00:00:00.000Z

## The wire on Charteris Bay
- [Chervils seen — Charteris Bay 8971, New Zealand](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/407733907), iNaturalist · melwhiting, 12 Oct 2026
- [Loopers seen — Charteris Bay 8971, New Zealand](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/407733667), iNaturalist · melwhiting, 12 Oct 2026
- [Capua seen — Charteris Bay 8971, New Zealand](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/407733464), iNaturalist · melwhiting, 12 Oct 2026
- [Dusky scuttler seen — Charteris Bay 8971, New Zealand](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/407678903), iNaturalist · melwhiting, 12 Oct 2026
- [Pūngāwerewere (Spider) seen — Charteris Bay 8971, New Zealand](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/407678278), iNaturalist · melwhiting, 12 Oct 2026

[The whole wire](https://www.chch.live/wire)

## The crash record

No boundary is on record for Charteris Bay, the outline joins can't answer, so nothing counts.

## Next door
- [Diamond Harbour](https://www.chch.live/diamond-harbour)
- [Purau](https://www.chch.live/purau)
- [Corsair Bay](https://www.chch.live/corsair-bay)
- [Governors Bay](https://www.chch.live/governors-bay)
- [Te Rapaki o Te Rakiwhakaputa](https://www.chch.live/te-rapaki-o-te-rakiwhakaputa)
- [Rapaki](https://www.chch.live/rapaki)

[Compare](https://www.chch.live/compare) Charteris Bay with [Diamond Harbour](https://www.chch.live/compare?a=charteris-bay&b=diamond-harbour) · [Purau](https://www.chch.live/compare?a=charteris-bay&b=purau) · [Corsair Bay](https://www.chch.live/compare?a=charteris-bay&b=corsair-bay) · [Governors Bay](https://www.chch.live/compare?a=charteris-bay&b=governors-bay) · [Te Rapaki o Te Rakiwhakaputa](https://www.chch.live/compare?a=charteris-bay&b=te-rapaki-o-te-rakiwhakaputa) · [Rapaki](https://www.chch.live/compare?a=charteris-bay&b=rapaki), same record, side by side.

## Questions, answered briefly

**What is Charteris Bay?**

Charteris Bay is a small settlement on Banks Peninsula in New Zealand. The public record holds 67 council reports for it, the first filed in August 2016.

**How many people live in Charteris Bay?**

129 people at the the most recent count Census.

**How many people does the 2023 Census count for Charteris Bay?**

About 1,536 people and 693 occupied private households (wider SA2 stand-in): grouped from Stats NZ SA1 areas through this site’s suburb join. Indicative, not a LIM.

**What gets reported in Charteris Bay?**

67 reports on record, most often roads & footpaths (48), trees & parks (9), water & drains (5). 11 of them in the year to 14 October 2026.

**What stood in Charteris Bay before?**

The heritage register holds 3 places here, [Former Charteris Bay School and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/331), [Millhouse and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/330) among them. The written record goes back further: [the shelf, for the name →](https://www.chch.live/documents?q=%22Charteris%20Bay%22)

Data: https://api.chch.live/suburb?name=Charteris%20Bay · Reports: https://api.chch.live/reports.rss?suburb=Charteris%20Bay